Seasonality

site_file$seasonality

Daily rainfall global rasters for the period 2000-2024 were obtained from CHIRPS¹ using the umbrella R package. For each site we estimate the fourier series parameters representing general seasonal profiles. Please see the umbrella website for more information.

site_file$seasonality$seasonality_parameters Contains the estimated fourier series parameters.

site_file$seasonality$monthly_rainfall Contains the extracted rainfall estimate

site_file$seasonality$fourier_prediction Contains a prediction of the seasonal curve using the estimated parameters

Citations

CHIRPS.