A Tool for Mapping the Distribution of the Biomes and Bioclimate
Estimator for Daily Solar Irradiance/Irradiation
Calculator for Bioclimatic Indices
Calculator for Bioclimatic Indices
Vegetation Classifier Using the BIOME Model
Vegetation Classifier Using the BIOME Model
Estimator for Fraction of Bright Sunshine Duration
Estimator for Fraction of Bright Sunshine Duration
Forest-Steppe Models
Forest-Steppe Models
Vegetation Classifier Using the HLZ System
Vegetation Classifier Using the HLZ System
Vegetation Classifier Using the KGC System
Vegetation Classifier Using the KGC System
Estimator for Daily Amounts of Energy and Water Fluxes
Daily Weather Generator
A Tool for Mapping the Distribution of the Biomes and Bioclimate
Procedures for simulating biomes by equilibrium vegetation models, with a special focus on paleoenvironmental applications. Three widely used equilibrium biome models are currently implemented in the package: the Holdridge Life Zone (HLZ) system (Holdridge 1947, <doi:10.1126/science.105.2727.367>), the Köppen-Geiger classification (KGC) system (Köppen 1936, <https://koeppen-geiger.vu-wien.ac.at/pdf/Koppen_1936.pdf>) and the BIOME model (Prentice et al. 1992, <doi:10.2307/2845499>). Three climatic forest-steppe models are also implemented. An approach for estimating monthly time series of relative sunshine duration from temperature and precipitation data (Yin 1999, <doi:10.1007/s007040050111>) is also adapted, allowing process-based biome models to be combined with high-resolution paleoclimate simulation datasets (e.g., CHELSA-TraCE21k v1.0 dataset: <https://chelsa-climate.org/chelsa-trace21k/>).
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