climaveg: Initial Landscape Classification and Climatic Parameters

Description Usage Format

Description

A dataset on terrestrial landscape types and climatic parameters in global 0.5 degree grid.

Usage

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Format

A data frame 59871 rows and 17 variables:

lon,lat

Longitude and Latitude of the centre point of the 0.5 degree cell.

sagetype

Landscape type, source http://sage.wisc.edu/.

Tmean

Annual mean temperature.

Tmomin

Mean temperature of the coldest month.

Tmomax

Mean temperature of the warmest month.

PET

Thornthwaite's Potential Evapotranspiration calculated with PEThorn with options heatlimitUSA=FALSE and daylimit50=FALSE.

Cont

Conrad's thermal continentality index.

Prectot

Total annual precipitation in mm.

Precsummer

Precipitation in summer half-year.

PEdiff

Difference PET - Prectot.

PrecCV

Coefficient of variation of monthly precipitation.

PEratio

Ratio of Prectot/PET. This is taken as 1 if PET == 0.

Precsummerat

Ratio of Precsummer and Prec.

PETHar, PETHarM

Hargreaves PET and modified Hargreaves PET calculated with hargreaves (SPEI package).

TDayRange

Mean difference of daily minimum and maximum temperatures.


jarioksa/biogeo documentation built on May 18, 2019, 3:47 p.m.