GetWH: Occurrence of compound wet-hot events

In CompoundEvents: A package for compound events modeling and assessment

Description

Take the precipitation and temperature and extract wet-hot occurrence based on thresholds.The binary variable of the wet and warm (WW) event can be otained.

Usage

GetWH(mp,mt,threp,thret)

Arguments

mp	Precipitation
mt	Temperature
threp	Threshold of precipitation (e.g., 80th percentile)
thret	Threshold of temperature (e.g., 80th percentile)

Value

The occurrence of compound wet-hot event (0-1 binary variable)

References

Hao, Z. et al (2013). Changes in concurrent monthly precipitation and temperature extremes.Environ. Res. Lett., 8(3): 034014.

Examples

mp=matrix(rnorm(120,0,1),ncol=1)
mt=matrix(rnorm(120,0,1),ncol=1)
threp=80
thret=80
WH<-GetWH(mp,mt,threp,thret)

CompoundEvents documentation built on Dec. 1, 2019, 3 p.m.