StormR R package

Overview

StormR is an R package allowing to easily extract storm track data for given locations or areas of interests, to generate wind speed and direction fields, and to compute summary statistics characterising the behaviour of winds generated by tropical storms and cyclones: maximum sustained wind speed, power dissipation index, and duration of exposure to winds reaching defined speed thresholds.

Usage

Installing StormR

The development version can be installed from GitHub as follows,

#install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("umr-amap/StormR")

Loading StormR package

library(StormR)

Main functions

Name	Description	Inputs	Outputs
defDatabase()	Creates a stormsDataset object	".nc" (NetCDF) file	stormsDataset object
defStormsList()	Extracts storms	stormsDataset object	StormsList object
plotStorms()	Plots storms track data	StormsList object
temporalBehaviour()	Computes wind speed, direction time series, and summary statistics for a given set of point coordinates	StormsList object	lists of data.frame objects
spatialBehaviour()	Computes 2D wind fields and summary statistics over a given location of interest	StormsList object	SpatRaster object
plotBehaviour()	Plots 2D wind fields and summary statistics	StormsList + SpatRaster objects
writeRast()	Exports wind fields and summary statistics to file	SpatRaster object	.tiff or .nc file

Funding

This work was supported by Hermon Slade Foundation, grant HSF 19105.