franksCO2 {TSS.RESTREND}

Franks CO2 Vegetation correction

Description

Adjusts a vegetation time series to account for CO2 fertilisation

Usage

franksCO2(CTSR.VI, C4frac, CO2 = FALSE, refyear = 1980)

Arguments

CTSR.VI

Complete Monthly Time Series of Vegetation Index values. An object of class 'ts' object without NA's.

C4frac

The fraction of vegetation that follows the C4 photosynthetic pathway, between 0 and 1

CO2

A timeseries containg the CO2 concentration. The defualt is CMIP5 RCP8.5

refyear

The Year that acts as a baseline for CO2. All vegetation values will be scaled # to the CO2 concentration of this year. Defulat is 1980. THis function will pick the first value in the selected year,

Value

CTSR.VIadj A version of the CTSR.VI data that has been adjusted to account for CO2

Author(s)

Arden Burrell, [e-mail]