Download Dipole Mode Index (DMI) — download

Intensity of the IOD is represented by anomalous SST gradient between the western equatorial Indian Ocean (50E-70E and 10S-10N) and the south eastern equatorial Indian Ocean (90E-110E and 10S-0N). This gradient is named as Dipole Mode Index (DMI). When the DMI is positive then, the phenomenon is refereed as the positive IOD and when it is negative, it is refereed as negative IOD.

Usage

download_dmi(use_cache = FALSE, file = NULL)

Arguments

use_cache: logical option to save and load from cache. If `TRUE`, results will be cached in memory if `file` is `NULL` or on disk if `file` is not `NULL`.
file: optional character with the full path of a file to save the data. If `cache` is `FALSE` but `file` is not `NULL`, the results will be downloaded from the internet and saved on disk.

Value

Year: Year of record
Month: Month of record
Date: Date object that uses the first of the month as a placeholder. Date formatted as date on the first of the month because R only supports one partial of date time
DMI: Dipole Mode Index

References

https://psl.noaa.gov/gcos_wgsp/Timeseries/DMI/

Examples

if (FALSE) {
dmi <- download_dmi()
}