plotWalterLieth: Plot a Walter Lieth climate diagram

In iki.dataclim: Consistency, Homogeneity and Summary Statistics of Climatological Data

Description

This produces a Walter Lieth climate diagram from annual cycles of temperature and precipitation.

Usage

plotWalterLieth(X, station="", alt=NA, per, margin=c(4, 4, 5, 4),
pcol="#005ac8", tcol="#e81800", pfcol="#79e6e8", sfcol =
  "#09a0d1", shem=FALSE, ...)

Arguments

X	A dataclim object or a matrix.
station	A string describing the station. Defaults to the empty string "".
alt	The altitude of the station. Defaults to NA.
per	A string for the period over which the monthly averages are computed. Defaults to the basePeriod slot if X is of class dataclim or to the empty string "" if X is a matrix

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margin	Vector with four numeric elements describing the margins of the plot. Defaults to c(4, 4, 5,4). See par().
pcol	Color for (p)recipitation. Defaults to "#005ac8".
tcol	Color for (t)emperature. Defaults to "#e81800".
pfcol	Color (p)robable (f)rost. Defaults to "#79e6e8".
sfcol	Color (s)ure (f)rost. Defaults to "#09a0d1".
shem	Logical. Is the station on the Southern hemisphere? Defaults to FALSE.
...	Further arguments passed to plot().

Details

If X is an object of dataclim, the extracts the monthly averages from a call to summary(X) and produces the Walter Lieth climate diagram.

If X is a matrix, X is expected to be a 4x12 matrix with no NAs, with the first row: monthly precipitation (mm), second row: monthly average maximum daily temperature (degC), third row: monthly average minimum daily temperature (degC), forth row: monthly absolute minimum daily temperature.

Value

Nothing. A plot.

Note

The code is based on code from the former CRAN package climatol by Jose A. Guijarro <[e-mail]>.

Author(s)

Boris Orlowsky <[e-mail]>

References

Walter, H. & Lieth, H (1960): Klimadiagramm Weltatlas. G. Fischer, Jena.

See Also

dataclim

Examples

data(potsdam)
date <- as.Date(potsdam$date)
myDataclim <- createDataclim(date=date, tmin=potsdam$tmin, tmax=potsdam$tmax,
                          prec=potsdam$prec, basePeriod=1981:2010)
plotWalterLieth(myDataclim)
plotWalterLieth(myDataclim, station="Potsdam", alt=80)

Example output

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