wclim: Returns Worldclim bioclimatic variable names

In biogeo: Point Data Quality Assessment and Coordinate Conversion

Description

Returns Worldclim bioclimatic variable names. See www.worldclim.org

Usage

wclim(f = 1:19, full = F)

Arguments

f	the variable numbers for which names are required
full	if full is TRUE then all columns are returned including an abbreviation for the variable and a correction factor

Details

Some of the temperature variables from Worldclim were multiplied by 10 for storage reasons. The correction is the value that the bioclimatic variable should be divided by to get it back into degrees centigrade.

Value

a dataframe including the bio name e.g. BIO05, an abbreviation of the name, the name of the variable and a correction factor.

Author(s)

Mark Robertson

References

Hijmans, R.J., S.E. Cameron, J.L. Parra, P.G. Jones and A. Jarvis, 2005. Very high resolution interpolated climate surfaces for global land areas. International Journal of Climatology 25: 1965-1978.

See Also

env2stack

Examples

wclim()
wclim(1:19,full=TRUE)
wclim(c(1,5,6,12))

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