SWMPr (version 2.1.5)

metab_day: Identify metabolic days in a swmpr time series

Description

Identify metabolic days in a swmpr time series based on sunrise and sunset times for a location and date. The metabolic day is considered the 24 hour period between sunsets for two adjacent calendar days. The function calls the sunriset function from the maptools package, which uses algorithms from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/grad/solcalc/).

Usage

metab_day(dat_in, stat_in)

Arguments

dat_in

data.frame

stat_in

chr vector of station name including data type

Details

This function is only used within ecometab and should not be called explicitly.

See Also

ecometab, sunriset