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Energy irradiance for split spectrum regions

Source: R/split.energy.irradiance.r
split_energy_irradiance.Rd

This function returns the energy irradiance for a series of contiguous wavebands from a radiation-source spectrum. The returned values can be either absolute or relative to their sum.

Usage

split_energy_irradiance(
  w.length,
  s.irrad,
  cut.w.length = range(w.length),
  unit.in = "energy",
  scale = "absolute",
  check.spectrum = TRUE,
  use.cached.mult = FALSE,
  use.hinges = getOption("photobiology.use.hinges", default = NULL)
)

Arguments

w.length

numeric vector of wavelengths (nm).

s.irrad

numeric vector of spectral (energy or photon) irradiance values (W m-2 nm-1) or (mol s-1 m-2 nm-1).

cut.w.length

numeric vector of wavelengths (nm).

unit.in

character string with allowed values "energy", and "photon", or its alias "quantum".

scale

character string indicating the scale used for the returned values ("absolute", "relative", "percent").

check.spectrum

logical indicating whether to sanity check input data, default is TRUE.

use.cached.mult

logical Flag indicating whether multiplier values should be cached between calls.

use.hinges

logical Flag indicating whether to insert "hinges" into the spectral data before integration so as to reduce interpolation errors at the boundaries of the wavebands.

Value

a numeric vector of irradiances with no change in scale factor: [W m-2 nm-1] -> [W m-2] or [mol s-1 m-2] -> [W m-2] or relative values (fraction of one) if scale = "relative" or scale = "percent".

Note

The last three parameters control speed optimizations. The defaults should be suitable in most cases. If you set check.spectrum=FALSE then you should call check_spectrum at least once for your spectrum before using any of the other functions. If you will use repeatedly the same SWFs on many spectra measured at exactly the same wavelengths you may obtain some speed up by setting use.cached.mult=TRUE. However, be aware that you are responsible for ensuring that the wavelengths are the same in each call, as the only test done is for the length of the w.length vector.

See also

Other low-level functions operating on numeric vectors.: as_energy(), as_quantum_mol(), calc_multipliers(), div_spectra(), energy_irradiance(), energy_ratio(), insert_hinges(), integrate_xy(), interpolate_spectrum(), irradiance(), l_insert_hinges(), oper_spectra(), photon_irradiance(), photon_ratio(), photons_energy_ratio(), prod_spectra(), s_e_irrad2rgb(), split_photon_irradiance(), subt_spectra(), sum_spectra(), trim_tails(), v_insert_hinges(), v_replace_hinges()

Examples

with(sun.data,
     split_energy_irradiance(w.length, s.e.irrad,
                             cut.w.length = c(300, 400, 500, 600, 700)))
#> range.300.400 range.400.500 range.500.600 range.600.700 
#>      28.62668      69.69043      68.48950      58.45434