# Assessing Skill of Climate Forecasts on Seasonal-to-Decadal Timescales

## Documentation for package ‘CSTools’ version 3.1.0

- DESCRIPTION file.
- User guides, package vignettes and other documentation.

## Help Pages

Analogs | Analogs based on large scale fields.
areave_data | Sample Of Experimental And Observational Climate Data Averaged Over A Region
as.s2dv_cube | Conversion of 'startR_array' or 'list' objects to 's2dv_cube'
BEI_PDFBest | Computing the Best Index PDFs combining Index PDFs from two SFSs
BEI_Weights | Computing the weights for SFSs using the Best Index PDFs.
Calibration | Forecast Calibration
CST_Analogs | Downscaling using Analogs based on large scale fields.
CST_Anomaly | Anomalies relative to a climatology along selected dimension with or without cross-validation
CST_BEI_Weighting | Weighting SFSs of a CSTools object.
CST_BiasCorrection | Bias Correction based on the mean and standard deviation adjustment
CST_Calibration | Forecast Calibration
CST_CategoricalEnsCombination | Make categorical forecast based on a multi-model forecast with potential for calibrate
CST_EnsClustering | Ensemble clustering
CST_Load | CSTools Data Retreival Function
CST_MergeDims | Function to Merge Dimensions
CST_MultiEOF | EOF analysis of multiple variables
CST_MultiMetric | Multiple Metrics applied in Multiple Model Anomalies
CST_MultivarRMSE | Multivariate Root Mean Square Error (RMSE)
CST_QuantileMapping | Quantiles Mapping for seasonal or decadal forecast data
CST_RainFARM | RainFARM stochastic precipitation downscaling of a CSTools object
CST_RegimesAssign | Function for matching a field of anomalies with a set of maps used as a reference (e.g. clusters obtained from the WeatherRegime function)
CST_RFSlope | RainFARM spectral slopes from a CSTools object
CST_RFTemp | Temperature downscaling of a CSTools object using lapse rate correction or a reference field
CST_RFWeights | Compute climatological weights for RainFARM stochastic precipitation downscaling
CST_SaveExp | Save CSTools objects of class 's2dv_cube' containing experiments or observed data in NetCDF format
CST_SplitDim | Function to Split Dimension
CST_WeatherRegimes | Function for Calculating the Cluster analysis
EnsClustering | Ensemble clustering
lonlat_data | Sample Of Experimental And Observational Climate Data In Function Of Longitudes And Latitudes
lonlat_prec | Sample Of Experimental Precipitation Data In Function Of Longitudes And Latitudes
MergeDims | Function to Split Dimension
MultiEOF | EOF analysis of multiple variables starting from an array (reduced version)
PlotCombinedMap | Plot Multiple Lon-Lat Variables In a Single Map According to a Decision Function
PlotForecastPDF | Plot one or multiple ensemble forecast pdfs for the same event
PlotMostLikelyQuantileMap | Plot Maps of Most Likely Quantiles
PlotPDFsOLE | Plotting two probability density gaussian functions and the optimal linear estimation (OLE) as result of combining them.
PlotTriangles4Categories | Function to convert any 3-d numerical array to a grid of coloured triangles.
RainFARM | RainFARM stochastic precipitation downscaling (reduced version)
RegimesAssign | Function for matching a field of anomalies with a set of maps used as a reference (e.g. clusters obtained from the WeatherRegime function).
RFSlope | RainFARM spectral slopes from an array (reduced version)
RFTemp | Temperature downscaling of a CSTools object using lapse rate correction (reduced version)
s2dv_cube | Creation of a 's2dv_cube' object
SaveExp | Save an experiment in a format compatible with CST_Load
SplitDim | Function to Split Dimension
WeatherRegime | Function for Calculating the Cluster analysis