Extract compound wet-hot (WH) occurrences based on thresholds of precipitation and temperature.The binary variable of the WH (or wet-warm,WW) event can be obtained.
GetWH(mp,mt,threp,thret)
The occurrence of compound wet-hot events (0-1 binary variable)
Precipitation
Temperature
Threshold of precipitation (e.g., 80th percentile)
Threshold of temperature (e.g., 80th percentile)
Hao, Z. et al (2013). Changes in concurrent monthly precipitation and temperature extremes. Environ. Res. Lett., 8(3): 034014.
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)
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