Section outline

  • The CM SAF R Toolbox was specifically developed for climatological time series analysis of NetCDF data. An overview of the CM SAF R Toolbox and some functionalities are provided in the section "The CM SAF R Toolbox."

    To familiarize with CM SAF CDRs, we encourage you to go through the cheat sheets "Basic Climate Analysis using the CM SAF R Toolbox" provided below.


    • The CM SAF R Toolbox

      The CM SAF R TOOLBOX is an easy-to-use tool to prepare, analyze and visualize CM SAF NetCDF data. The Toolbox offers a collection of more than 60 operators for analysis and manipulation of CM SAF NetCDF formatted data. The CM SAF R Toolbox is based on a R-shiny graphical user interface, which guides through all options. Thus, no R or scripting experience is needed.

       



    • Basic Climate Analysis using the CM SAF R Toolbox
      A helpful source on working with the Toolbox might be the recently started series of CM SAF R Toolbox Cheat Sheets.


      1) from tar to nc (2) calculate a climatological mean (3) calculate an anomaly


    • Example: How to create monthly anomalies of sunshine duration
      This tutorial video shows as an example how to create an anomaly of sunshine duration using the CM SAF R Toolbox. This might be an inspiration for your own little project for the hands-on session.

    • Example Data

      If you want to reproduce the results from the live demo or the tutorial video you can download the data here:


      We recommend to download your own data to get used to the ordering process and to produce results for your region of interest.
    • More on the CM SAF R Toolbox

      A lot of information material is available to make the start with the CM SAF R Toolbox as easy as possible. Besides the introductive video, there is a manual for the Toolbox as well as for the cmsaf R-package, a Questions & Answers document and a flyer. 

      Probably the best way to start with CM SAF data and the CM SAF R Toolbox is the COMET e-learning module, which we highly recommend. It takes about 1 hour to complete the COMET module.

    • And now have fun playing with the toolbox!

      Try it out, test it, share your results via Padlet, and join us for the feedback session on Monday, 25 January 2021 at 12:00h. Click here to join the feedback session.