Friday Dec. 2, 2022 • 11:00a - 12:30pm • online • free

Agroclimate metrics are the backbone of all manner of models for crop development, crop management, site suitability, and pest development. Common metrics include the number of frost days, winter chill accumulation, extreme heat days, diurnal temperature range, maximum July temperature, total precipitation, degree days, and many others.

This webinar demonstrated how to compute common agroclimate metrics in R for the past, present, and future. We learned how to import into R weather data using packages like cimir and caladaptR, and compute metrics using tidyverse methods and specialized packages like degday.

Requirements: Participants who wish to complete the hands-on portion of the workshop should have a RStudio Cloud account, and have basic familiarity with R and RStudio.