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Average Air Temperature and Elevation Data for Cauquenes (WorldClim and ASTER)

Source: R/spData.R
spData.Rd

This dataset contains three rasters: Average Annual Air Temperature (tavg), Elevation (elev) from WorldClim 2.1, and a Digital Elevation Model (dem) from ASTER, all clipped to the extent of the Cauquenes region in Chile.

Usage

data(dem, package = "spEnviroDistr")

data(elev, package = "spEnviroDistr")

data(tavg, package = "spEnviroDistr")

Format

A list of three SpatRaster objects from the terra package:

tavg

Annual Mean Temperature (BIO1) in °C, derived from WorldClim 2.1, representing the average air temperature for the period 1970-2000.

elev

Elevation in meters, derived from WorldClim 2.1, representing the altitude above sea level.

dem

Digital Elevation Model (DEM) from ASTER, representing the terrain elevation in meters with a spatial resolution of 30 meters.

Source

Details

This dataset is ideal for spatial environmental analysis and ecological modeling. The three rasters provide valuable information about the climate and elevation of the Cauquenes region, which is located in central Chile. The data can be used for spatial interpolation, geostatistical analysis, or climate modeling.

The rasters are provided in the EPSG:4326 (WGS84) coordinate reference system.

References

Fick, S.E. and Hijmans, R.J., 2017. WorldClim 2: New 1 km spatial resolution climate surfaces for global land areas. International Journal of Climatology, 37(12): 4302-4315. DOI: doi:10.1002/joc.5086

NASA/METI/AIST/Japan Spacesystems, and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team. ASTER Global Digital Elevation Model V003. 2018, distributed by NASA EOSDIS Land Processes DAAC, doi:10.5067/ASTER/ASTGTM.003

Examples

# Load the dataset
data(dem)
data(elev)
data(tavg)
plot(dem)

plot(elev)

plot(tavg)