thunder: Computation and Visualisation of Atmospheric Convective Parameters

Allow to compute and visualise convective parameters commonly used in the operational prediction of severe convective storms. Core algorithm is based on a highly optimized 'C++' code linked into 'R' via 'Rcpp'. Highly efficient engine allows to derive thermodynamic and kinematic parameters from large numerical datasets such as reanalyses or operational Numerical Weather Prediction models in a reasonable amount of time. Package has been developed since 2017 by research meteorologists specializing in severe thunderstorms. The most relevant methods used in the package based on the following publications Stipanuk (1973) <https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/AD0769739.pdf>, McCann et al. (1994) <doi:10.1175/1520-0434(1994)009%3C0532:WNIFFM%3E2.0.CO;2>, Bunkers et al. (2000) <doi:10.1175/1520-0434(2000)015%3C0061:PSMUAN%3E2.0.CO;2>, Corfidi et al. (2003) <doi:10.1175/1520-0434(2003)018%3C0997:CPAMPF%3E2.0.CO;2>, Showalter (1953) <doi:10.1175/1520-0477-34.6.250>, Coffer et al. (2019) <doi:10.1175/WAF-D-19-0115.1>, Gropp and Davenport (2019) <doi:10.1175/WAF-D-17-0150.1>, Czernecki et al. (2019) <doi:10.1016/j.atmosres.2019.05.010>, Taszarek et al. (2020) <doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0346.1>, Sherburn and Parker (2014) <doi:10.1175/WAF-D-13-00041.1>, Romanic et al. (2022) <doi:10.1016/j.wace.2022.100474>.

Version: 1.1.3
Depends: R (≥ 3.5.0)
Imports: aiRthermo, curl, dplyr, httr, Rcpp (≥ 0.12.9.4)
LinkingTo: Rcpp
Suggests: knitr, rmarkdown, testthat (≥ 3.0.0)
Published: 2023-11-11
Author: Bartosz Czernecki ORCID iD [aut, cre], Mateusz Taszarek ORCID iD [aut], Piotr Szuster ORCID iD [aut], Doug Nychka [ctb], Eric Gilleland [ctb], Liangying Zhang [ctb], Tim Hoar [ctb]
Maintainer: Bartosz Czernecki <nwp at amu.edu.pl>
BugReports: https://github.com/bczernecki/thunder/issues/
License: GPL-2 | GPL-3 [expanded from: GPL (≥ 2)]
URL: https://bczernecki.github.io/thundeR/
NeedsCompilation: yes
Materials: README NEWS
CRAN checks: thunder results

Documentation:

Reference manual: thunder.pdf
Vignettes: List of convective parameters and other important details
Introduction to the thundeR package
Miscellaneous

Downloads:

Package source: thunder_1.1.3.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: thunder_1.1.3.zip, r-release: thunder_1.1.3.zip, r-oldrel: thunder_1.1.3.zip
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): thunder_1.1.3.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): thunder_1.1.3.tgz, r-release (x86_64): thunder_1.1.3.tgz
Old sources: thunder archive

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