wai_allometry: Wood allometry

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Wood allometry

Description

Calculate wood area index (WAI) given DBH

Usage

wai_allometry(dbh, nplant, b1, b2)

Arguments

dbh	Cohort diameter at breast height
nplant	Stem density (stems m-2)
b1	Allometry equation base
b2	Allometry equation exponent

Details

Two possibilities here, depending on iallom. The default value is: 'WAI = nplant * b1 * DBH ^ b2

An alternative formulation is that it is always 11% of LAI: WAI = 0.11 * LAI. But we don't use that here because it's trivial.

Value

Wood area index

Author(s)

Alexey Shiklomanov

ashiklom/rrtm documentation built on Aug. 10, 2022, 5:04 a.m.