climr
climr is an experimental R package that builds on the downscaling concepts operationalized in the ClimateNA tool (Wang et al. 2016). It provides downscaling of observational and simulated climate data using a simple method that adds low-spatial-resolution climate anomalies to a high-spatial-resolution reference climatological map, with additional elevation adjustment. climr is developed and maintained in-house by the FFEC.
climr addresses several unmet needs for climate analysis:
Efficient programmatic access to climate data (25-50x faster than ClimateBC/NA)
Time series and normals for multiple climate simulations per GCM, which is essential to representing interannual variability and the full range of modeling uncertainty.
Open-source community development, providing data security and the opportunity for BC government and public users to nimbly make improvements.