The total July rainfall at Quilpie, Queensland, Australia from 1921 to 1988
data(quilpie)A data frame with 68 observations on the following 6 variables.
Yearthe year; a numeric vector
Rainthe total monthly July rainfall in millimetres; a numeric vector
SOIthe July average southern oscillation index, or soi; a numeric vector
Phasethe 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)
Exceedan indicator for whether or not the total monthly
July rainfall exceeds 10 millimetres:
a factor where Yes means the rainfall exceeds 10mm,
and No means the rainfall is 10mm or less
yan indicator for whether or not the total monthly July rainfall
exceeds 10 millimetres:
a factor where 1 means the rainfall exceeds 10mm,
and 0 means the rainfall is 10mm or less
R. C. Stone and A. Auliciems (1992) soi phase relationships with rainfall in eastern Australia, International Journal of Climatology, 12, 625--636.
data(quilpie)
plot( Rain ~ SOI, data=quilpie)
plot( Rain ~ factor(Phase), data=quilpie)
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