Package ‘SPEI’March 2, 2023

Type Package
Version 1.8.1
Title Calculation of the Standardized Precipitation-Evapotranspiration Index

Description

A set of functions for computing potential evapotranspiration and several widely used drought in-dices including the Standardized Precipitation-Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI).

Depends R (>= 3.5.0)
Imports lmomco, lmom, TLMoments, reshape, ggplot2, checkmate, zoo,lubridate License GPL-2
URL https://spei.csic.es, https://github.com/sbegueria/SPEI Language en-US
BugReports https://github.com/sbegueria/SPEI/issues LazyLoad true
Encoding UTF-8
Suggests covr, testthat
RoxygenNote 7.2.3
NeedsCompilation no
Author Santiago Beguería [aut, cre],
Sergio M. Vicente-Serrano [aut]
Maintainer Santiago Beguería <santiago.begueria@csic.es> Repository CRAN
Date/Publication 2023-03-02 13:00:05 UTC
R topics documented:

Datasets

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Examples

Drought-indices

Calculation of the Standardized Precipitation-Evapotranspiration In-dex (SPEI) and the Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI).

Description

Usage

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Input data

Time scales

Probability distributions

Fitting methods

User-provided parameters

Reference period

Processing large datasets

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See Also

Examples

Generalized-Logistic

Generalized Logistic maximum likelihood function

Kernel-functions

Time kernel for computing the SPEI at different time scales.

Details

Potential-evapotranspiration

Computation of potential and reference evapotranspiration.

Description

Potential evapotranspiration (PET) is the amount of evaporation and transpiration that would occur if a sufficient water source were available. Reference evapotranspiration (ETo) is the amount of evaporation and transpiration from a reference vegetation of grass. They are usually considered equivalent. This set of functions calculate PET or ETo according to the Thornthwaite, Hargreaves or Penman-Monteith equations.
See hargreaves
See hargreaves

thornthwaite(Tave, lat, na.rm = FALSE, verbose=TRUE)
hargreaves(Tmin, Tmax, Ra = NULL, lat = NULL, Pre = NULL, na.rm = FALSE, verbose=TRUE)
penman(Tmin, Tmax, U2, Ra = NULL, lat = NULL, Rs = NULL, tsun = NULL,CC = NULL, ed = NULL, Tdew = NULL, RH = NULL, P = NULL, P0 = NULL, CO2 = NULL, z = NULL, crop='short', na.rm = FALSE, method='ICID', verbose=TRUE)

penman(Tmin,
Tmax,
U2 = NULL,
Ra = NULL,
lat = NULL,
Rs = NULL,
tsun = NULL,
CC = NULL,
ed = NULL,
Tdew = NULL,
RH = NULL,
P = NULL,
P0 = NULL,
CO2 = NULL,
z = NULL,
crop = "short", na.rm = FALSE, method = "ICID", verbose = TRUE)

thornthwaite(Tave, lat, na.rm = FALSE, verbose = TRUE)

Tmin

SPEI

SPEI.

Description

SPEINews

SPEINews