Returns Worldclim bioclimatic variable names. See www.worldclim.org
Usage
wclim(f = 1:19, full = F)
Arguments
f
the variable numbers for which names are required
full
if full is TRUE then all columns are returned including an abbreviation for the variable and a correction factor
Value
a dataframe including the bio name e.g. BIO05, an abbreviation of the name, the name of the variable and a correction factor.
Details
Some of the temperature variables from Worldclim were multiplied by 10 for storage reasons. The correction is the value that the bioclimatic variable should be divided by to get it back into degrees centigrade.
References
Hijmans, R.J., S.E. Cameron, J.L. Parra, P.G. Jones and A. Jarvis, 2005. Very
high resolution interpolated climate surfaces for global land areas. International
Journal of Climatology 25: 1965-1978.