This function is an upgrade to the Construct.H.multisite function which provides the index by different criteria.

construct_nimble_H(site.ids, var.names, obs.t, pft.path = NULL, by = "single")

Arguments

site.ids

a vector name of site ids

var.names

vector names of state variable names

obs.t

list of vector of means for the time t for different sites.

pft.path

physical path to the pft.csv file.

by

criteria, it supports by variable, site, pft, all, and single Q.

Value

Returns one vector containing index for which Q to be estimated for which variable, and the other vector gives which state variable has which observation (= element.W.Data).

Author

Dongchen Zhang