Get Nearest Climate Value by Coordinates
This chapter introduces get_nearest_climate_value(), which returns climate variable values from the nearest mesh cell to given coordinates. The function source file is R/get_nearest_climate_value.R.
Load library
Load data
data_dir <- Sys.getenv("PROJECT_DATA_DIR")
sf_climate <- readRDS(file.path(
data_dir,
"climate_mesh_data_joined/climate_mesh_data_with_aridity_index.rds"
))Define the function
source("../R/get_nearest_climate_value.R")Usage
Get nearest aridity_index for one coordinate
result <- get_nearest_climate_value(
sf_climate,
lon = 139.6917,
lat = 35.6895,
value_col = "aridity_index"
)
print(result)Get multiple variables for one coordinate
Get nearest values for a data frame of coordinates
df_input <- data.frame(
id = 1:3,
longitude = c(139.6917, 135.5022, 130.4181),
latitude = c(35.6895, 34.6937, 33.5902)
)
result <- get_nearest_climate_value(
sf_climate,
df = df_input,
lon_col = "longitude",
lat_col = "latitude",
value_col = c("aridity_index", "precipitation_year")
)
print(result)