SimCop (version 0.7.3)

MaxTemp: Extreme temperatures at two West Australian meteorological stations

Description

A dataset on maximum annual values of average daily temperature measurements at two meteorological stations---Leonora (latitude 28.53S, longitude 121.19E) and Menzies (latitude 29.42S, longitude 121.02E)---in Western Australia, for the period 1898--1993.

Usage

MaxTemp

Format

A data frame with 96 rows and 2 variables:

Leonora

annual maximal temperature at Leonora, in degrees Celsius

Menzies

annual maximal temperature at Menzies, in degrees Celsius

References

Hall, P. and Tajvidi, N. (2004). Prediction regions for bivariate extreme events. Australian & New Zealand Journal of Statistics 46(1): 99--112. tools:::Rd_expr_doi("10.1111/j.1467-842X.2004.00316.x").

Examples

plot(Menzies ~ Leonora, MaxTemp,
     xlab = expression("Temperature at Leonora ("*degree*"C)"),
     ylab = expression("Temperature at Menzies ("*degree*"C)"))