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SPEI (version 1.6)

Calculation of the Standardised Precipitation-Evapotranspiration Index

Description

A set of functions for computing potential evapotranspiration and several widely used drought indices including the Standardized Precipitation-Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI).

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install.packages('SPEI')

Monthly Downloads

2,297

Version

1.6

License

GPL-2

Maintainer

Santiago Beguería

Last Published

November 7th, 2013

Functions in SPEI (1.6)

SPEI-package

Calculation of the Standardised Precipitation-Evapotranspiration Index

Generic methods for spei objects

Generic methods for spei objects.

Datasets

Datasets for illustrating the functions in the SPEI package.

Potential evapotranspiration

Computation of potential evapotranspiration.

Kernel functions

Time kernel for computing the SPEI at different time scales.

SPEINews

Show the NEWS file

Drought indices

Calculation of the Standardized Precipitation-Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI) and the Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI).

Generalized Logistic

Generalized Logistic distribution function.