Last data update: 2014.03.03

R: Hydrological recession constant
k_hydR Documentation

Hydrological recession constant

Description

This function calculates the local hydrological recession constant for each point in a time series. The function returns NA for periods with increasing discharge.

Usage

k_hyd(x)

Arguments

x

discharge time serie

Details

The function returns -dx/dt*1/x if dx/dt is larger than 0 and x is not 0. For the other cases, NA is returned.

Value

Vector of recession constants.

Author(s)

Dominik Reusser

References

Blume Recession Paper

See Also

diagnostic_dawson

Examples


   data(example.peaks,package="tiger")

   k_hyd(reference.peak)

Results