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Using `climr_downscale` to acquire 1991-2020 averages of climate variables?
Hi, this is a great package you guys are working on and I'm really excited to start using it!
I'm interested in using the climr_downscale function to download the 1991-2020 average for MAP (mean annual precipitation) for a study area in BC (~679k locations in a 250m resolution DEM), but I'm a bit confused how to do this given the allowed arguments for climr_downscale. Looking at ?climr_downscale, the historic_period argument seems promising, but calling list_historic shows the only period available is 2001_2020. Are other normals (i.e., 1991-2020) not available yet? I also tried using the historic_ts argument to download individual MAP rasters for 1991-2020, but had to kill the R process as memory consumption started to freeze my system.
Any guidance on using climr_downscale to acquire 30-year means of variables such as MAP would be very appreciated. Thank you!
hi @bcaradima, thanks for getting in touch. we currently we only support the 2001-2020 period. we will have other historical periods in a future version, probably a couple of months. we are not planning to provide future 30-year normals for GCM projections. currently, the ts is your only option. perhaps you need to loop for individual years. if you hang up doing that let us know.
