prepare_site {r3PG}

Check the site data for consistency

Description

Prepares the site table, by checking whether the input information is consistent.

Usage

prepare_site(site)

Arguments

site

table containing the information about site data. It shall contain exactly one row.

• latitude: site latitude in the WGS84 coordinate system.

• altitude: site altitude, m a.s.l.

• soil_class: soil class, according to table 2 user manual of 3PGpjs. 1 - Sandy; 2 - Sandy loam; 3 - Clay loam; 4 - Clay; 0 - No effect of available soil water on production.

• asw_i: initial available soil water (mm).

• asw_max: minimum available soil water (mm).

• asw_min: maximum available soil water (mm).

• from: year and month indicating the start of simulation. Provided in form of year-month. E.g. "2000-01".

• to: year and month indicating the end of simulation. Provided in form of year-month. E.g. "2009-12", will include December 2009 as last simulation month.

Details

This function check the site table for run_3PG.

Value

a data.frame with one row

See Also

run_3PG, prepare_input, prepare_parameters, prepare_sizeDist, prepare_thinning

Examples

# check site data
prepare_site( site = d_site)