2  Overview

The climr app is a graphical interface for climr, an R package that provides downscaled climate data for North America. This app allows users to download custom climate data for their areas of interest. It also provides visualizations of the climates of North America and how they are changing. The climr App is created by the Future Forest Ecosystem Centre of the BC Ministry of Forests. If you have ideas for how we can improve it, let us know via email or GitHub.

2.1 Structure

The climr app is organized into three tabs.

  1. Get Data: Users can select points or areas of interest using one of 2 methods:

    1. Interactively select map points or draw polygons
    2. Upload a batch file (csv), digital elevation model, or spatial boundary

    Users can then select the desired parameters and downscale the data. The downscaled data can be previewed and is available for download as csv and GeoTIFF.

  2. Visualization: Users can select from 3 types of locations:

    1. Ecoregions of North America
    2. Forest Landscape Plan (FLP) Area
    3. Single map point

    Users can then visualize data for the selected area using available plots (Time Series, Bivariate, and Walter-Lieth plots).

    Users can also add climate maps as an overlay on North America.

  3. About: Help files and data sources

    1. Overview: You’re reading it!
    2. Instructions: Instructions on how to use the tool
    3. Methods: Detailed background information about what’s happening “under the hood”
    4. Known issues: Documentation on current known issues with the tool
    5. Definitions: Glossary of terms and climate variables
    6. Providing feedback: Ways users can report issues or provide suggestions for future improvements
    7. FAQs: Frequently asked questions
    8. Resources