A suite of utilities to download and process weather data from gridMET (Abatzoglou, 2013).

The basic operations involve choosing and downloading the raw data.

Use the gridmetr_download() to download the data to a folder called data/_variable_name.

gridmetr_download(variables = c("pdsi","erc"),
                  years = seq.int(2000,2002))

• Determine why future (parallel) fails within the download function

• Determine steps to convert to package

• Provide some visualization utilities

Abatzoglou, J. T. (2013), Development of gridded surface meteorological data for ecological applications and modelling. Int. J. Climatol., 33: 121–131.