EcoHydRology (version 0.4.7)

RainHeat: Heat from Rain

Description

Temperature added to the land from heat exchange with rain (usually in the context of snowmelt) [kJ m-2 d-1]

Usage

RainHeat(airtemp, rain)

Arguments

airtemp

average dailiy air temperature [C]

rain

depth of rainfall [m]

Examples

##---- Should be DIRECTLY executable !! ----
##-- ==>  Define data, use random,
##--	or do  help(data=index)  for the standard data sets.

## The function is currently defined as
function(airtemp,rain){
# temperature added to the land from heat exchange with rain (usually in the context of snowmelt) [kJ m-2 d-1]
#airtemp: average dailiy air temperature [C]
#rain: depth of rainfall [m]

heatcapacity<-4.2  #heat capacity of water [kJ kg-1 C-1]
waterdensity<-1000 #density of water [kg m-3]

return(heatcapacity*waterdensity*rain*(airtemp-0))
  }