climdex.hd17: Heating Degree Days

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climdex.hd17R Documentation

Heating Degree Days

Description

This function takes a climdexInput object as input and computes the climdex index hd17: the annual (or at different periods) sum of heating degree days (17-tavg)

Usage

climdex.hd17(ci, freq = c("monthly", "annual", "halfyear", "seasonal"))

Arguments

ci

Object of type climdexInput. Here the daily maximum temperature.

freq

Time frequency to aggregate to. Allowed only monthly, annual, halfyear, seasonal.

spells.can.span.years

Default FALSE

Value

A vector containing a timeseries of the number of consecutive summer days in a given period (freq).

Author(s)

Christiana Photiadou (KNMI)

References

http://www.ecad.eu/indicesextremes/indicesdictionary.php


ECA-D/climind documentation built on Nov. 26, 2022, 10:20 a.m.