Function reference • riversCentralAsia

Pre-processing

Functions supporting the pre-processing of data for hydrological modelling in RS Minerve.

convert2HYY(): Converts monthly hydro-meteorological time-series data to hydrological year values.

doQuantileMapping(): Performs a quantile mapping bias correction

gen_HRU_Climate_CSV_RSMinerve(): Extract hydrological response unit HRU specific climate time series from nc-files.

gen_basinElevationBands(): Generate basin elevation bands from DEM

loadTabularData(): Load Tabular Hydro-Meteorological Data

plotNormDevHYY(): Helper function to plot value deviations from norms for entire hydrological years and cold and warm seasons.

Post-processing

Functions supporting the post-processing of data from hydrological modelling in RS Minerve

assess_fc_qual(): Assesses the quality of decadal or monthly forecasts as done in Central Asian Hydrometeorological Agencies.

computeAnnualFlowDurationCurve(): Computes the annual flow duration curve of a river discharge data set.

plotAnnualFlowDurationCurve(): plot the annual flow duration curve of a river discharge data set.

RSMinerveIO

Functions facilitating reading and writing of text files from RS Minerve

getChunkSize(): Calculate the number of time steps to read from DST file for each model component.

load_minerve_input_csv(): Reads climate and discharge data into a tibble.

readDBCSV(): Reads a RSMinerve data base csv into a tibble.

readForcingCSV(): Reads climate and discharge data into a tibble.

readForcingSTR(): Reads climate and discharge data from a character string into a tibble.

readRSMParameters(): Reads parameters from RSMinerve parameter file

readResultCSV(): Reads RS Minerve result file and returns data.

readResultDST(): Reading RSMinerve result file

readSelectionCHK(): Reads a chk file containing the variables selected for printing

translateCSVtoDST(): Translate csv to dst

writeRSMParameters(): Write parameters to RS Minerve parameter file

writeSelectionCHK(): Writes a chk file containing the variables selected for printing

Glacier functions

Functions for modeling glacier discharge in R

ErazovsGlacierFunction(): Estimates glacier surface area and glacier volume.

glacierAreaVolume_Aizen(): Estimates glacier surface area and glacier volume.

glacierArea_Erasov(): Calculates glacier area from glacier volume

glacierArea_RGIF(): Calculates glacier area based on glacier volume

glacierMelt_TI(): Glacier melt computed with a temperature index model

glacierVolume_Erasov(): Calculates glacier volume from glacier area.

glacierVolume_RGIF(): Calculates glacier volume based on glacier area

Helper functions

Functions for date handling and aggregation

aggregate_to_monthly(): Aggregates the sub-monthly data in a riversCentralAsia data set to monthly data.

cutRaster2Basin(): Cutting raster file to basin shape with reprojection

decadeMaker(): Creates a vector of decadal (10 days) dates

generateSeqDates(): POSIXct date sequence generator

hyear(): Calculates the hydrological year for a given date

monDateSeq(): Create a monthly sequence date vector with end of month day dates

%>%: Pipe graphics

posixct2rsminerveChar(): Function to convert POSIXCT-dates to a character representation as required by RSminerve

Demo data sets

Data for use with the package

ChirchikRiverBasin: Discharge, precipitation and temperature in the Chirchik river basin, Uzbekistan.