spatialEco (version 1.3-0)

hli: Heat Load Index

Description

Calculates the McCune & Keon (2002) Heat Load Index

Usage

hli(x, check = TRUE)

Arguments

x

raster object

check

(TRUE/FALSE) check for projection integrity in northern latitudes

Value

raster class object of McCune & Keon (2002) Heat Load Index

References

McCune, B., and D. Keon (2002) Equations for potential annual direct incident radiation and heat load index. Journal of Vegetation Science. 13:603-606.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
  library(raster)
  data(elev)
  heat.load <- hli(elev)
    plot(heat.load, main="Heat Load Index") 
    
# }