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		Unified Climate Indices for Temperature, Precipitation, and
		Drought // Compute the standard suite of climate indices from
		daily weather observations. Provides the canonical 'ETCCDI' 27
		(Expert Team on Climate Change Detection and Indices), the 'ET-
		SCI' heatwave and cold-wave families plus the Excess Heat
		Factor of Nairn and Fawcett (2013), and agroclimatic, drought,
		and human-comfort families. Drought indices ('SPI', 'SPEI')
		accept a choice of distribution (gamma or Pearson III for SPI;
		log-logistic or generalised extreme value for SPEI). Reference
		evapotranspiration is available via Hargreaves and the FAO-56
		Penman-Monteith method (Allen et al. 1998). Percentile-based
		indices support the Zhang (2005) in-base bootstrap. Daily
		inputs are numeric vectors plus a 'Date' vector; outputs are
		tidy data frames. Optional gridded support via 'terra' applies
		any index over a 'SpatRaster' and reads 'netCDF' input. No
		external API calls; pairs with data packages such as
		'readnoaa'. References: Alexander et al. (2006)
		doi:10.1029/2005JD006290; Zhang et al. (2011)
		doi:10.1002/wcc.147; Zhang et al. (2005)
		doi:10.1175/JCLI3366.1.
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