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mai

De Martonne aridity index


Description

De Martonne aridity index is the ratio between the annual amount of precipitation and anual mean of temperature plus 10 Celsius.

Usage

mai(pr, taverage, data_names = NULL, na.rm = FALSE, ...)

Arguments

pr

daily precipitation, mm

taverage

daily mean temperature, Celsius

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

Formula

MAI = \frac{P} {TG+10}

P = annual precipitation (mm); TG = mean annual air temperature (Celsius)

References

De Martonne E., 1926. Une nouvelle fonction climatologique: L’indice d’aridité. La Meteorologie, 449-458.

Examples

data(data_all)
mai(pr = data_all$rr, taverage = data_all$tg)

ClimInd

Climate Indices

v0.1-3
GPL (>= 3)
Authors
Fergus Reig-Gracia [aut, cre], Sergio M. Vicente-Serrano [aut], Fernando Dominguez-Castro [aut], Joaquin Bedia-Jiménez [ctb]
Initial release
2021-04-09

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