SPECS Hands-on training workshop on seasonal forecasting: Data access, bias correction and downscaling

This website links to the material to be used during the training workshop. It includes hands-on sessions and proposed exercises.

Introduction to R for climate (8-9 Sept)

This part is intended for inexperienced R users. It provides an overview of the main features of the language focusing on climate data processing. If you are skipping this part of the workshop, make sure you have your system correctly set up for the workshop?.

• Installation and packages?
• R-Studio?
• Basic usage?
• Data structures?
• Data processing
• Plotting?
• Flow control and scripting?

Data access (10 Sept)

In this session we will use the ecomsUDG.Raccess? package.

• Getting and setting up the package?
• Working with a single grid point?
• Working with gridded data?

Bias correction (11 Sept)

Statistical downscaling (12 Sept)

During this session we will use the ​downscaleR package.

• ​Minimal downscaling example