Alternative visualization tools: Monsoon in the Indian subcontinent

So far we have shown plotting examples using the trellis plots generated by the spplot method. In this examples we show alternative plotting options using more standard R plotting functions for gridded data. To this aim, we load the precipitation data of 1997 for the lead month 1 forecast over the Indian subcontinent, considering the monsoon season from June to September:

monsoon <- loadSeasonalForecast("CFS", var="tp", members=16, lonLim=c(65,92), latLim=c(5,37), season=6:9, years=1997)