Compute photoperiod (daylength, sunshine duration) at a given latitude and day of the year.
Usage
# S4 method for Date
photoperiod(x, latitude)
# S4 method for data.frame
photoperiod(x)
# S4 method for SpatRaster
photoperiod(x, filename="", overwrite=FALSE, ...)
Value
double. Photoperiod in hours
Arguments
x
Date, integer (day of the year), or data.frame (with variables "date" and "latitude", or SpatRaster
latitude
numeric. Latitude
filename
character. Output filename
overwrite
logical. If TRUE, filename is overwritten
...
additional arguments for writing files as in writeRaster
References
Forsythe, W.C., E.J. Rykiel Jr., R.S. Stahl, H. Wu, R.M. Schoolfield, 1995. A model comparison for photoperiod as a function of latitude and day of the year. Ecological Modeling 80: 87-95.