The annual rainfall for stations in the wheat-belt
in the north and centre of New South Wales (Australia)
Usage
data(wheatrain)
Arguments
Format
A data frame with 24 observations on the following 6 variables.
Station
the station name; a text vector
Alt
the station altitude (in metres);
a numeric vector
Lat
the station latitude (in degrees south);
a numeric vector
Lon
the station longitude (in degrees east);
a numeric vector
AR
the stations' mean annual rainfall (in mm) between 1916 and 1990;
a numeric vector
Region
the station's region, as computed by Boer et al. (1993) using
a principal component analysis based on monthly rainfall;
a numeric vector with levels 1, 2 and 3
Details
The data gives the mean annual rainfall for 24 stations in
the wheat-belt of nsw.
The mean rainfall is based on the year 1916 to 1990, apart from
Station 1 (1907 to 1983),
Station 10 (1916 to 1965)
and
Station 11 (1935 to 1976).