foreSIGHT: Systems Insights from Generation of Hydroclimatic Timeseries

A tool to create hydroclimate scenarios, stress test systems and visualize system performance in scenario-neutral climate change impact assessments. Scenario-neutral approaches 'stress-test' the performance of a modelled system by applying a wide range of plausible hydroclimate conditions (see Brown & Wilby (2012) <doi:10.1029/2012EO410001> and Prudhomme et al. (2010) <doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2010.06.043>). These approaches allow the identification of hydroclimatic variables that affect the vulnerability of a system to hydroclimate variation and change. This tool enables the generation of perturbed time series using a range of approaches including simple scaling of observed time series (e.g. Culley et al. (2016) <doi:10.1002/2015WR018253>) and stochastic simulation of perturbed time series via an inverse approach (see Guo et al. (2018) <doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2016.03.025>). It incorporates a number of stochastic weather models to generate hydroclimate variables on a daily basis (e.g. precipitation, temperature, potential evapotranspiration) and allows a variety of different hydroclimate variable properties, herein called attributes, to be perturbed. Options are included for the easy integration of existing system models both internally in R and externally for seamless 'stress-testing'. A suite of visualization options for the results of a scenario-neutral analysis (e.g. plotting performance spaces and overlaying climate projection information) are also included. As further developments in scenario-neutral approaches occur the tool will be updated to incorporate these advances.

Version:	0.9.81
Depends:	R (≥ 3.3.0), GA (≥ 3.0.2), zoo
Imports:	doParallel, ggplot2 (≥ 3.0.0), directlabels, cowplot, stats, graphics, grDevices, utils, moments
Suggests:	knitr (≥ 1.8), rmarkdown (≥ 1.18)
Published:	2019-12-04
Author:	Bree Bennett [aut, cre], Sam Culley [aut], Seth Westra [aut], Danlu Guo [ctb], Holger Maier [ths]
Maintainer:	Bree Bennett <bree.bennett at adelaide.edu.au>
BugReports:	https://github.com/bsbennett/foreSIGHT/issues
License:	GPL-3
NeedsCompilation:	no
Materials:	NEWS
CRAN checks:	foreSIGHT results

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