Description Usage Arguments Details Value Author(s) Examples
bioclim
recreates the standard 19 bioclimatic variables (BIOCLIM)
created using ANUCLIM
http://fennerschool.anu.edu.au/publications/software/anuclim.php or
used by Worldclim http://www.worldclim.org/.
These measures
are described below but include annual and quarterly summaries of
temperature and precipitation.
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tmin |
a data.frame or matrix with 12 or 52 columns representing monthly or weekly minimum temperature data; rows represent different locations. |
tmax |
a data.frame or matrix as with |
prec |
a data.frame or matrix as with |
tmean |
a data.frame or matrix as with |
vois |
a vector of values between 1 & 19 defining the bioclimatic variables to be calculated; see details for variable description. |
cov |
a boolean value where TRUE represents Temperature seasonality (4) is calculated as in ANUCLIM and FALSE is calclated as with Worldclim; see details for further information. |
t.as.int |
a boolean value where TRUE will convert all temperature values to integers by rounding(temp*10); FALSE will leave temperater values as is. |
period |
can be either "month" or "week" representing the temporal period for which values are calculated; see details for further description. |
The variables created here are based primarily on BIOCLIM variables created
by ANUCLIM
http://fennerschool.anu.edu.au/publications/software/anuclim.php.
Below is a description of the variables and how they are calculated from the
ANUCLIM website, with Temperature Seasonality description modified for the
different method Worldclim uses.
The descriptions below assume you are
using a weekly time step. If you are using months, the monthly values rather
than the weekly values will be used when calculating these parameters.
The quarterly parameters are not aligned to any calendar quarters. BIOCLIM's
definition of a quarter is any 13 consecutive weeks, (or any consecutive 3
months if running with a monthly time step). For example, the driest quarter
will be the 13 consecutive weeks that are drier than any other set of 13
consecutive weeks.
Annual Mean Temperature
The mean of all the weekly mean temperatures. Each weekly mean temperature
is the mean of that week's maximum and minimum temperature.
Mean Diurnal Range(Mean(period max-min))
The mean of all the
weekly diurnal temperature ranges. Each weekly diurnal range is the
difference between that week's maximum and minimum temperature.
Isothermality 2/7
The mean diurnal range (parameter 2) divided by
the Annual Temperature Range (parameter 7).
Temperature
Seasonality
ANUCLIM (cov
=TRUE) returns the temperature
Coefficient of Variation (C of V) as the standard deviation of the weekly
mean temperatures expressed as a percentage of the mean of those
temperatures (i.e. the annual mean). For this calculation, the mean in
degrees Kelvin is used. This avoids the possibility of having to divide by
zero, but does mean that the values are usually quite small.
Worldclim
(cov
=FALSE) returns the the standard deviation of the weekly mean
temperatures.
Max Temperature of Warmest Period
The highest
temperature of any weekly maximum temperature.
Min Temperature
of Coldest Period
The lowest temperature of any weekly minimum
temperature.
Temperature Annual Range (5-6)
The difference
between the Max Temperature of Warmest Period and the Min Temperature of
Coldest Period.
Mean Temperature of Wettest Quarter
The
wettest quarter of the year is determined (to the nearest week), and the
mean temperature of this period is calculated.
Mean Temperature
of Driest Quarter
The driest quarter of the year is determined (to the
nearest week), and the mean temperature of this period is calculated.
Mean Temperature of Warmest Quarter
The warmest quarter of the
year is determined (to the nearest week), and the mean temperature of this
period is calculated.
Mean Temperature of Coldest Quarter
The coldest quarter of the year is determined (to the nearest week), and the
mean temperature of this period is calculated.
Annual
Precipitation
The sum of all the monthly precipitation estimates.
Precipitation of Wettest Period
The precipitation of the wettest
week or month, depending on the time step.
Precipitation of
Driest Period
The precipitation of the driest week or month, depending
on the time step.
Precipitation Seasonality(C of V)
The
Coefficient of Variation (C of V) is the standard deviation of the weekly
precipitation estimates expressed as a percentage of the mean of those
estimates (i.e. the annual mean).
Precipitation of Wettest
Quarter
The wettest quarter of the year is determined (to the nearest
week), and the total precipitation over this period is calculated.
Precipitation of Driest Quarter
The driest quarter of the year is
determined (to the nearest week), and the total precipitation over this
period is calculated.
Precipitation of Warmest Quarter
The
warmest quarter of the year is determined (to the nearest week), and the
total precipitation over this period is calculated.
Precipitation of Coldest Quarter
The coldest quarter of the year
is determined (to the nearest week), and the total precipitation over this
period is calculated.
a matrix with columns representing variables requested and the
number of rows(and order of them) the same as the input tmin
,
tmax
, prec
or tmean
.
Jeremy VanDerWal jjvanderwal@gmail.com
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