envirem (version 3.0)

PETseasonality: PET seasonality

Description

Seasonality of potential evapotranspiration

Usage

PETseasonality(PETstack)

Value

rasterLayer in mm / month

Arguments

PETstack

SpatRaster of monthly PET rasters

Author

Pascal Title

Details

PET seasonality = 100 * standard deviation of monthly PET.

References

Metzger, M.J., Bunce, R.G.H., Jongman, R.H.G., Sayre, R., Trabucco, A. & Zomer, R. (2013). A high-resolution bioclimate map of the world: a unifying framework for global biodiversity research and monitoring. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 22, 630-638.

See Also

monthlyPET

Examples

# \donttest{
# Find example rasters
rasterFiles <- list.files(system.file('extdata', package='envirem'), full.names=TRUE)
env <- rast(rasterFiles)

# identify the appropriate layers
meantemp <- grep('mean', names(env), value=TRUE)
solar <- grep('solrad', names(env), value=TRUE)
maxtemp <- grep('tmax', names(env), value=TRUE)
mintemp <- grep('tmin', names(env), value=TRUE)

# read them in as SpatRasters
meantemp <- env[[meantemp]]
solar <- env[[solar]]
maxtemp <- env[[maxtemp]]
mintemp <- env[[mintemp]]
tempRange <- abs(maxtemp - mintemp)

# get monthly PET
pet <- monthlyPET(meantemp, solar, tempRange)

PETseasonality(pet)
# }