The total monthly rainfall in Emerald, Australia,
and the average monthly soi
Usage
data(emeraldaug)
Arguments
Format
A data frame with 114 observations on the following 3 variables.
Year
the year;
a numeric vector
Rain
the total monthly rainfall in August of the given year;
a numeric vector
SOI
the monthly average southern oscillation index (soi);
a numeric vector
Phase
the soi phase (see Stone and Auliciems, 1992);
a factor with these values:
1 (consistently negative),
2 (consistently positive),
3 (rapidly falling),
4 (rapidly rising), or
5 (consistently near zero)
Details
The data give the total monthly rainfall and monthly in Emerald,
Queensland, Australia, from 1889 to 2002,
and the average soi for the corresponding month.
References
R. C. Stone and A. Auliciems (1992)
soi phase relationships with rainfall in eastern Australia,
International Journal of Climatology,
12,
625--636.