Preface

This book is prepared by IRI to provide users a hands-on guide to use Climate Data Tool (CDT) for the management and analysis of meteorological data. CDT is a free, open source R package specifically designed for national meteorological services which allow the users to organize meteorological data, assess data availability, assess and correct data quality issues, combine station observations with satellite and reanalysis data, extract data from gridded products, analyze and visualize observation and gridded data. CDT allow a user to do all of these things at the comfort of click and select without requiring the user to write even a single line of code. The user friendly graphical user interface (GUI) provided by CDT makes the climatological data management and analysis a breeze.

This book walks users through all the functionalities of CDT with practical examples. Upon completing this book, a reader will be able to do the quality control, manipulation, analysis and visualization of meteorological data.