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Computing the annual aridity index from Walter-Lieth climate diagrams
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Areas between temperature and precipitation lines when precipitation exceeds temperature are calculated as indicators of moist seasons, and areas where temperature exceeds precipitation are calculated as indicator of dry season. The aridity index is defined as the quotient between the areas of dry and wet seasons. Precipitations over 100 mm are scaled such that 1 degree C is equal to 5 mm.
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aridity index and plot of the Walter-Lieth diagram.
Wilson Lara <wilarhen@gmail.com>, Felipe Bravo <fbravo@pvs.uva.es>
Manrique E., A. Fernandez-Cancio. 2000. Extreme climatic events in dendroclimatic reconstructions from Spain. Clim. Chang., 44: 123-138.
##random simulation of climatic records set.seed(1) pr <- rnorm(12,1,1) tm <- rnorm(12,0,1) cld <- data.frame(pr,tm) ##labels of months from october to september rownames(cld) <- month.abb[c(10:12,1:9)] rownames(cld) <- c(10:12,1:9) ##computation of the aridity index and climate diagram AI <- wlai(cld) AI
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