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Defining parameters as functions of other parameters

Chris Mur

2025-06-23

In some cases, users may not wish to provide a parameter value, but rather have a value calculated based on other parameters. Currently, the only parameters that can be provided as functions are:

• nu_constant in constants()
• sh_constant in constants()
• T_sky in enviro_par()

I plan to make more of these in the future, but I’ll briefly demonstrate how one would change the T_sky function. The default function from Okajima et al. (2012), which was hard-coded in versions 1.0.0 and 1.0.1, is:

library(tealeaves)
#> Loading required package: units
#> udunits database from /usr/share/xml/udunits/udunits2.xml

leaf_par   <- make_leafpar()   # leaf parameters
enviro_par <- make_enviropar() # environmental parameters
constants  <- make_constants() # physical constants

enviro_par$T_sky
#> function (pars) 
#> {
#>     pars$T_air - set_units(20, K) * pars$S_sw/set_units(1000, 
#>         W/m^2)
#> }
#> <bytecode: 0x5585efdfe3b0>
#> <environment: 0x5585efdfd8c0>

Let’s change it simply be the air temperature (T_air). The current requirements for this function as of version 1.0.2 are:

• It must take pars as the only argument, where pars is the concatenated set of leaf (leaf_par()) and environmental parameters (enviro_par())
• It must return T_sky in units K. You can ensure this by using units::set_units(., K)

enviro_par <- make_enviropar(
  replace = list(T_sky = function(pars) {pars$T_air})
)
enviro_par$T_sky
#> function (pars) 
#> {
#>     pars$T_air
#> }

T_leaf <- tleaf(leaf_par, enviro_par, constants, quiet = TRUE)

knitr::kable(T_leaf)

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