climdex.wsdi: Warm Spell Duration Index

In ECA-D/climind: ECAD Implementation of Climdex Routines

Warm Spell Duration Index

Description

This function computes the climdex index WSDI.

Usage

climdex.wsdi(ci, freq = c("monthly", "annual", "halfyear", "seasonal"),
  spells.can.span.years = FALSE)

Arguments

ci	Object of type climdexInput.
spells.can.span.years	Whether to allow spells of dry/wet days to span years.

Details

This function takes a climdexInput object as input and computes the climdex index WSDI (Warm Spell Duration Index).

The warm spell duration index is defined as the number of days each year which are part of a "warm spell". A "warm spell" is defined as a sequence of 6 or more days in which the daily maximum temperature exceeds the 90th percentile of daily maximum temperature for a 5-day running window surrounding this day during the baseline period.

The spells.can.span.years option specifies whether spells can cross year boundaries – i.e., span years. The default for this is the same as fclimdex.

Value

A vector containing the value of the index for each year.

Note

These functions may calculate slightly different results than fclimdex.

Behaviour of climdex.wsdi and climdex.csdi differ somewhat from fclimdex. fclimdex considers all days in a warm or cold spell to be part of the year in which the spell ended. climdex.wsdi and climdex.csdi split the spell such that days in each spell are allocated to the separate years in the days occurred.

References

http://etccdi.pacificclimate.org/list_27_indices.shtml

See Also

climdexInput.raw, climdexInput.csv, threshold.exceedance.duration.index.

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