Implements models of leaf temperature using energy balance. It uses units to ensure that parameters are properly specified and transformed before calculations. It allows separate lower and upper surface conductances to heat and water vapour, so sensible and latent heat loss are calculated for each surface separately as in Foster and Smith (1986) <doi:10.1111/j.1365-3040.1986.tb02108.x>. It's straightforward to model leaf temperature over environmental gradients such as light, air temperature, humidity, and wind. It can also model leaf temperature over trait gradients such as leaf size or stomatal conductance. Other references are Monteith and Unsworth (2013, ISBN:9780123869104), Nobel (2009, ISBN:9780123741431), and Okajima et al. (2012) <doi:10.1007/s11284-011-0905-5>.

Chris Muir

tealeaves

Solve for Leaf Temperature Using Energy Balance

Ar function

<dl><dt>T_leaf</dt>
<dd>Leaf temperature in Kelvin</dd>
<dt>pars</dt>
<dd>Concatenated parameters (<code>leaf_par</code>, <code>enviro_par</code>, and <code>constants</code>)</dd>
<dt>unitless</dt>
<dd>Logical. Should function use parameters with <code>units</code>? The function is faster when FALSE, but input must be in correct units or else results will be incorrect without any warning.</dd></dl>

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Ar: Archimedes number — Ar

<dl>

<dt>T_leaf</dt>
<dd>Leaf temperature in Kelvin</dd>


<dt>pars</dt>
<dd>Concatenated parameters (<code>leaf_par</code>, <code>enviro_par</code>, and <code>constants</code>)</dd>


<dt>unitless</dt>
<dd>Logical. Should function use parameters with <code>units</code>? The function is faster when FALSE, but input must be in correct units or else results will be incorrect without any warning.</dd>

</dl>

Symbol	R	Description	Units	Default
\(Gr\)	`Gr`	Grashof number	none	calculated
\(Re\)	`Re`	Reynolds number	none	calculated

Ar: Ar: Archimedes number

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