An R package to extract data from the 5'x5' HISTALP grid.
install.packages("ncdf4", "devtools")
devtools::install_github("cszang/histalp")
After loading the package, it will check for the HISTALP netCDF files, and if it does not find them, it will download and unzip them in ~
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extract <- get_histalp(lon = 11.23, lat = 44.21)