radiation_conversion: Conversion factors for radiation

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Conversion factors for radiation

Description

Function to convert the radiation data. The conversion name can be understand as follow:

• conversion_1 = MJ m-2 day-1 to J cm-2 day-1;

• conversion_2 = MJ m-2 day-1 to cal cm-2 day-1;

• conversion_3 = MJ m-2 day-1 to W m-2;

• conversion_4 = MJ m-2 day-1 to mm day-1;

• conversion_5 = cal cm-2 day-1 to MJ m-2 day-1;

• conversion_6 = cal cm-2 day-1 to J cm-2 day-1;

• conversion_7 = cal cm-2 day-1 to W m-2;

• conversion_8 = cal cm-2 day-1 to mm day-1;

• conversion_9 = W m-2 to MJ m-2 day-1;

• conversion_10 = W m-2 to J cm-2 day-1;

• conversion_11 = W m-2 to cal cm-2 day-1;

• conversion_12 = W m-2 to mm day-1;

• conversion_13 = mm day-1 to MJ m-2 day-1;

• conversion_14 = mm day-1 to J cm-2 day-1;

• conversion_15 = mm day-1 to cal cm-2 day-1;

• conversion_16 = mm day-1 to W m-2.

Usage

radiation_conversion(data_to_convert, conversion_name)

Arguments

data_to_convert	A data.frame with radiation values to convert.
conversion_name	A character with the conversion_name summarize in the description of this function.

Value

A data.frame object wit the converted radiation.

Author(s)

Roberto Filgueiras, Luan P. Venancio, Catariny C. Aleman and Fernando F. da Cunha

Examples

## Not run: 
radiation_conversion_df <- radiation_conversion(
  data_to_convert = df$rad,
  conversion_name = "conversion_1"
)

## End(Not run)

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