extRemes (version 1.61)

FtCoPrec: Daily precipitation amounts in Fort Collins, Colorado.

Description

Daily precipitation amounts (inches) from a single rain gauge in Fort Collins, Colorado. See Katz et al. (2002) Sec. 2.3.1 for more information and analyses.

Usage

data(FtCoPrec)

format

A matrix with dimension 36524 by 5. Columns are: "obs", "month", "day", "year" and "Prec"; where "Prec" is the daily precipitation amount (inches).

source

Colorado Climate Center, Colorado State University (http://ulysses.atmos.colostate.edu).

References

Gilleland, Eric and Katz, Richard W. Tutorial for the 'Extremes Toolkit: Weather and Climate Applications of Extreme Value Statistics.' http://www.assessment.ucar.edu/toolkit, 2005.

Katz, Richard W., Parlange, Marc B. and Naveau, Philippe. Statistics of extremes in hydrology. Advances in Water Resources, 25:1287--1304, 2002.

Examples

data(FtCoPrec)
str(FtCoPrec)
plot(FtCoPrec[,"month"], FtCoPrec[,"Prec"], xlab="month", ylab="daily precipitation (inches)")

# See Gilleland et al. (2005) for more examples using these dta with extRemes.