Verifies if 'climate' represents the monthly climatology in one year, i.e 'climate' is monthly.climate type matrix whose rows represent months and each column represents a station. It is also used in setComprehensiveTemperatureGeneratorParameters.

is.monthly.climate(climate, nstation = 3, nmonth = 12, verbose = TRUE)

Arguments

climate

matrix containing the 'monthly climatology' data

nstation

number of variable measurement stations (columns of the matrix 'climate')

nmonth

number of months in one year (it can be different if climate is represented by seasonal avarages or others), Default is 12 (recommended). (it can be different if climate is represented by seasonal averages, in this case 4)

verbose

Prints output and warining messagrs only if is TRUE.

Value

A logical variable if the matrix 'climate' is monthly.climate type

Author

Emanuele Cordano, Emanuele Eccel