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lisbon: Rainfall Data from Lisbon, Portugal

Description

Daily rainfall data from Lisbon, Portugal, from December 1863 to June 2018.

Arguments

Format

The lisbon data frame has 56503 observations and 2 columns:

yearmonth

: year-month-day.

prec

: total precipitation (mm).

Details

Prior to 1941, precipitation was measured for the 0-24 hour period; from 1941 onwards, precipitation was recorded from 9am to 9am the following day. Data are available from GitHub and hence can be gathered using the command dataset("lisbon").

References

Carcaiso, V., De Carvalho, M., Prosdocimi, I. and Antoniano-Villalobos, I. (2026). Bayesian mixture models for heterogeneous extremes. arXiv:2509.15359.

de Carvalho, M., Huser, R., Naveau, P., and Reich, B. J. (2026). Handbook on Statistics of Extremes. Chapman & Hall/CRC. Boca Raton, FL.