leri R drought data tool now available on Comprehensive R Archive Network

leri R drought data tool now available on Comprehensive R Archive Network

Date

The North Central Climate Adaptation Science Center is happy to announce that the leri R package, which facilitates access to the NOAA Landscape Evaporative Response Index (LERI) data product, is now on the Comprehensive R Archive Network: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/leri/index.html

The leri package provides easy access to LERI drought data as raster objects in R, at a 1 km spatial resolution over the conterminous United States from 2000 to the present. For more information see https://github.com/earthlab/leri