dcepucp

Overview

dcepucp is an R package that creates a NetCDF file from urban canopy parameters as required by DCEP (Schubert et al. 2012) implemented in COSMO-CLM version 5. In particular, it provides the functions

• ugrid() to define an urban grid including COSMO-CLM parameters and DCEP parameters
• upar() to define the complete set of urban parameters including building and street properties as well as grid information
• upar2nc() to save an upar object in a NetCDF file

Furthermore, the package includes an exemplary data set of Berlin, Germany used in Schubert and Grossman-Clarke 2013. The fields are called berlin_* (see below).

Installation

Install the package from github using the devtools package with

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("sebschub/dcepucp")

If you receive the error Installation failed: error in running command, try setting options(unzip = "unzip") before running install_github.

Usage

The following shows the usage of dcepucp using the example of the Berlin data set:

library(dcepucp)
# generature urban grid (equivalent to berlin_grid already defined by
# the package
berlin_grid <- ugrid(pollat = 37.483, pollon = -166.6,
                     startlat_tot = -0.882, startlon_tot = -0.882,
                     ie_tot = 195, je_tot = 195,
                     dlat = 0.009, dlon = 0.009,
                     ke_uhl = 13,
                     hhl_uhl = c(0, 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 50, 60, 80, 100, 140),
                     n_uclass = 1,
                     n_udir = 4, angle_udir = c(-45., 0., 45., 90.))

# define urban parameters
ucp <- upar(berlin_grid, fr_urb = berlin_fr_urb, 
            fr_uclass = berlin_fr_uclass, fr_udir = berlin_fr_udir,
            fr_roof = berlin_fr_roof, w_street = berlin_w_street,
            w_build = berlin_w_build)

# save urban parameters in ucp.nc
upar2nc("ucp.nc", ucp)