deg_days: Degree Days

Description Usage Format Details Source

Description

The monthly accumulated degree days (celsius)

Usage

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Format

dataframe with 7,812 rows and 3 variables

date

calendar date, monthly value 1979-2000

watershed

CVPIA watershed name

degdays

monthly ATU in °C

Details

For watersheds with HEC-5Q modeled results, the calculation for degree days is the sum of the daily mean values for each month.

For the other regions, the calculation for degree days is the monthly mean temperature multiplied by the number of days in the month.

For more details about the temperature modeling see juv_temp

Source


FlowWest/cvpiaTemperature documentation built on Oct. 31, 2020, 11:28 p.m.