Climate Change Research Centre (CCRC) at University of New South Wales (UNSW) ([climdex.org](http://www.climdex.org)).
### 27 Core indices
For example:
* **FD** Number of frost days: Annual count of days when TN (daily minimum temperature) < 0C.
* **SU** Number of summer days: Annual count of days when TX (daily maximum temperature) > 25C.
* **ID** Number of icing days: Annual count of days when TX (daily maximum temperature) < 0C.
* **TR** Number of tropical nights: Annual count of days when TN (daily minimum temperature) > 20C.
* **GSL** Growing season length: Annual (1st Jan to 31st Dec in Northern Hemisphere (NH), 1st July to 30th June in Southern Hemisphere (SH)) count between first span of at least 6 days with daily mean temperature TG>5C and first span after July 1st (Jan 1st in SH) of 6 days with TG<5C.
* **TXx** Monthly maximum value of daily maximum temperature
* **TN10p** Percentage of days when TN < 10th percentile
* **Rx5day** Monthly maximum consecutive 5-day precipitation
* **SDII** Simple pricipitation intensity index
# Weather Data
### Climate Data Online

### GHCN

## Options for downloading data
### `FedData` package
* National Elevation Dataset digital elevation models (1 and 1/3 arc-second; USGS)
* National Hydrography Dataset (USGS)
* Soil Survey Geographic (SSURGO) database
* International Tree Ring Data Bank.
* *Global Historical Climatology Network* (GHCN)
### NOAA API

[National Climatic Data Center application programming interface (API)]( http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cdo-web/webservices/v2).
### `rNOAA` package
Handles downloading data directly from NOAA APIv2.
* `buoy_*` NOAA Buoy data from the National Buoy Data Center
* `ghcnd_*` GHCND daily data from NOAA
* `isd_*` ISD/ISH data from NOAA
* `homr_*` Historical Observing Metadata Repository
* `ncdc_*` NOAA National Climatic Data Center (NCDC)
* `seaice` Sea ice
* `storm_` Storms (IBTrACS)
* `swdi` Severe Weather Data Inventory (SWDI)
* `tornadoes` From the NOAA Storm Prediction Center
---
### Libraries
```r
library(raster)
library(sp)
library(rgdal)
library(ggplot2)
library(ggmap)
library(dplyr)
library(tidyr)
library(maps)
library(scales)
# New Packages
library(rnoaa)
library(climdex.pcic)
library(zoo)
library(reshape2)
library(broom)
```
### Station locations
Download the GHCN station inventory with `ghcnd_stations()`.
```r
datadir="data"
st = ghcnd_stations()
## Optionally, save it to disk
# write.csv(st,file.path(datadir,"st.csv"))
## If internet fails, load the file from disk using:
# st=read.csv(file.path(datadir,"st.csv"))
```
### GHCND Variables
5 core values:
* **PRCP** Precipitation (tenths of mm)
* **SNOW** Snowfall (mm)
* **SNWD** Snow depth (mm)
* **TMAX** Maximum temperature
* **TMIN** Minimum temperature
And ~50 others! For example:
* **ACMC** Average cloudiness midnight to midnight from 30-second ceilometer
* **AWND** Average daily wind speed
* **FMTM** Time of fastest mile or fastest 1-minute wind
* **MDSF** Multiday snowfall total
### `filter()` to temperature and precipitation
```r
st=dplyr::filter(st,element%in%c("TMAX","TMIN","PRCP"))
```
### Map GHCND stations
First, get a global country polygon
```r
worldmap=map_data("world")
```
Plot all stations:
```r
ggplot(data=st,aes(y=latitude,x=longitude)) +
facet_grid(element~.)+
annotation_map(map=worldmap,size=.1,fill="grey",colour="black")+
geom_point(size=.1,col="red")+
coord_equal()
```

It's hard to see all the points, let's bin them...
```r
ggplot(st,aes(y=latitude,x=longitude)) +
annotation_map(map=worldmap,size=.1,fill="grey",colour="black")+
facet_grid(element~.)+
stat_bin2d(bins=100)+
scale_fill_distiller(palette="YlOrRd",trans="log",direction=-1,
breaks = c(1,10,100,1000))+
coord_equal()
```
