PAIgeometry: Generates plant area index profile

In ilyamaclean/microctools: Various worker functions for microclimc package

Generates plant area index profile

Description

Generates plant area index profile

Usage

PAIgeometry(m, PAI, skew, spread)

Arguments

m	number of canopy nodes
PAI	total plant area index for canopy
skew	number between 0 and 10 indicating the degree of skew towards top of canopy in canopy foliage (see details)
spread	positive non-zero number less than 100 indicating the degree of spread in canopy foliage (see details)

Details

in specifyign skew, lower numbers indicate greater skew towards top of canopy (5 = symetrical). In specifying spread a value of one indicates almost all the foliage in concentrated in one canopy layer, whereas a value of 100 indicates completely evenly spread.

Value

a vector of length m of plant area indices for each canopy layer

Examples

pai <- PAIgeometry(100, 10, 7, 70)
plot(pai, type = "l")

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