normals is an R package that can be used to calculate climate normals using gridMET climate data. The package can be installed using devtools in R with devtools::install_github("https://github.com/mt-climate-office/mt-normals.git") Monthly and annual climate normals for the state of Montana are available in the data/normals directory. An overview of how to use the package is available in docs/climate_normals/make_normals.pdf. If you use our premade climate normals or use the normals package in a publication, please use the following citation:
Colin, Brust, R. Kyle, Bocinsky, Zachary, Hoylman, & Kelsey, Jencso. (2022). Normals: An R Package for Creating Montana's Climate Normals (1.0.1). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7278462
The normals package was used to create and visualize Montana's climate normals for the 1991 - 2020 record on the Montana Climate Atlas. The atlas allows users to visualize average conditions of various climatological variables across Montana. An example screenshot showing mean July precipitation is attached below, and the full interactive application is available at https://mt-climate-office.github.io/mt-normals/.
