dbcaDHW

The goal of dbcaDHW is to provide tools to prepare downloaded nc format sea surface temperature (SST) data for further analysis. dbcaDHW has been specifically designed to work with data downloaded from NOAA’s Coral Reef Watch website. The package provides additional vignettes that demonstrate how to create useful SST metrics including degree heating weeks.

The functions and workflow presented created the various SST metrics that were used in the Global Change Biology journal paper, “Too hot to handle: Unprecedented seagrass death driven by marine heatwave in a World Heritage Area”. Please see the paper for details on how the metrics were used to model the spatial variation in loss of seagrass in Shark Bay.

Installation

You can install the development version from GitHub with:

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("dbca-wa/dbcaDHW")
library(dbcaDHW)

Help Files

All functions within dbcaDHW have the usual R help files, however the best place to see these and the vignettes is the dbcaDHW website