[R-sig-Geo] Climate data in R

[M. Edward (Ed) Borasky]

On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 2:34 PM Tom Philippi <tephilippi at gmail.com> wrote:


> 1: Spatial interpolation is non-trivial.  PRISM uses not just distances
> from stations of record, but also topography: elevation for temperatures
> and precipitation and side of the mountain (very important for
> precipitation).  Don't just use the nearest station or inverse-distance
> krige unless you are in a broad flat plain or steppe.  [Sorry, Ed!]  There
> are a couple of raster products for daily data (not just the monthly
> PRISM), but they tend to be available a few weeks after the fact.
>

We'll probably use PRISM since they've done all the hard work, are
connected with the USDA and are in Oregon (the app is about Oregon
agriculture). I didn't know about PRISM when we started doing the data
collection for the app but I do now! ;-)
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