Plot warming stripes

Plots warming stripes with ggplot2. These graphics represent temperature change at a location over at least 70 years. Each stripe shows the annual average temperature at that station.

Usage

ggstripes(
  data,
  plot_type = "stripes",
  plot_title = "",
  n_temp = 11,
  col_pal = "RdBu",
  ...
)

Arguments

data

A data frame with date (year) and temperature (temp) variables.

plot_type

A character string specifying the plot type: "background", "stripes", "trend" or "animation".

plot_title

A character string for the plot title.

n_temp

The number of colors in the palette. Defaults to 11.

col_pal

A character string specifying the hcl.pals() color palette to be used for plotting.

...

Further arguments passed to ggplot2::theme().

Value

A ggplot2 object. See help("ggplot2").

Note

Professor Ed Hawkins of the University of Reading developed the "warming stripes" concept to communicate climate change risks as simply as possible. For more details, see ShowYourStripes.

See also

ggplot2::theme() for additional arguments to ggstripes() and climaemet_9434_temp.

Warming stripes: climatestripes_station()

Examples

# \donttest{
library(ggplot2)

data <- climaemet::climaemet_9434_temp

ggstripes(data, plot_title = "Zaragoza Airport") +
  labs(subtitle = "(1950-2020)")
#> ℹ Plotting warming stripes.
#> Warning: Removed 2 rows containing missing values or values outside the scale range
#> (`geom_tile()`).


ggstripes(data, plot_title = "Zaragoza Airport", plot_type = "trend") +
  labs(subtitle = "(1950-2020)")
#> ℹ Plotting warming stripes with a temperature trend line.
#> Warning: Removed 2 rows containing missing values or values outside the scale range
#> (`geom_tile()`).

# }