May Newsletter | Working with downscaled climate projections in R

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Catherine

Published

May 13, 2025

Upcoming workshop

Working with downscaled climate projections in R

Who: Dr Ralph Trancoso, Dr Sarah Chapman, Dr Rohan Eccles (DETSI)

When: Wed May 21, 10a - 12p AEST

Where: Teams (join our mailing list for the link)

Description:

In this workshop, we will cover the use of downscaled climate projections in R. This will include working with NetCDF files, plotting, and subsetting data to a target area. This session will also cover basic calculations, such as deriving bioclimatic indices and other relevant inputs which can be used for things like species distribution modelling.

Requirements:

R, RStudio, terra, dismo, dplyr, ggplot2

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