bio15 {ClimInd}

Precipitation coefficient of variation

Description

The coefficient of variation is a measure of the variation in monthly precipitation totals over the course of the year. This index is the ratio of the standard deviation of the monthly total precipitation to the mean monthly total precipitation and is expressed as a percentage.

Usage

bio15(data, data_names = NULL, na.rm = FALSE, ...)

Arguments

data

daily precipitation, mm

data_names

names of each period of time

na.rm

logical. Should missing values (including NaN) be removed?

...

further arguments passed to or from other methods

Value

index value

Examples

data(data_all)
bio15(data = data_all$rr)