MHisopleths: Isopleths on a months-hours diagram

In climatol: Climate Tools (Series Homogenization and Derived Products)

Isopleths on a months-hours diagram

Description

This function takes hourly or subhourly data (spanning at least one year) and plots isopleths of the chosen variable in a colored two-dimensional (months, hours) diagram.

Usage

MHisopleths(dat, vrb, fun='mean', xlab='Months', ylab='Hours', cex=1.2,
  col4RP=c('cyan','yellow','red'), title='')

Arguments

dat	dataframe containing the data in columns with date/time of class POSIX in the first column.
vrb	name of the column containing the chosen data.
fun	function to aggregate subhourly data into hourly.
xlab, ylab	labels for the X and Y axis.
cex	character expansion parameter for the size of labels.
col4RP	vector of colors for the colorRampPalette function.
title	main title.

Details

The user can choose any column of data present in dat. (Depending on the variable the default colors may not be the most appropriate.)

Examples

data(climatol_data)
MHisopleths(AWS_1year,'Temp',title='Mean temperature (C) -- My airport, 2002')
MHisopleths(AWS_1year,'WSpd',title='Wind speed (m/s) -- My airport, 2002')

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