pcp {precintcon}

Precipitation Concentration Period

Description

Calculates the Precipitation Concentration Period (PCP) on a daily or monthly precipitation serie.

Usage

pcp(object)

Arguments

object

a daily or monthly precipitation serie.

Value

A data.frame containing the following variables:

• year is the year.

• pcp is the precipitation concentration period, in degree, corresponding to a year. Results correspond to a month like below when using the 'azimuth' default values: 0 = January, 30 = February, 60 = March, ..., 300 = November, and 330 = December.

Author(s)

Lucas Venezian Povoa [e-mail]

References

Zhang L.J., Qian Y.F. (2003) Annual distribution features of precipitation in China and their interannual variations. J Acta Meteorological Sinica 17:146-163

See Also

pplot.pcp read.data as.daily as.monthly

Examples

##
# Loading the monthly precipitation serie.
data(monthly)

## 
# Performing the Precipitation Concentration Degree analysis
pcd(monthly)