extRemes (version 1.61)

damage: Hurricane Damage Data

Description

Estimated economic damage (billions USD) caused by hurricanes.

Usage

data(damage)

source

http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/pielke/hp_roger/hurr_norm/data.html

Details

More information on these data can be found in Pielke and Landsea (1998) or Katz (2002). Also see Gilleland et al. (2005) for examples using extRemes.

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., Stochastic modeling of hurricane damage. Journal of Applied Meteorology, 41:754--762, 2002.

Pielke, Roger A. and Landsea, CW., Normalized hurricane damages in the United States: 1925-95. Weather and Forecasting, 13 (3):621--631, 1998.

Examples

data(damage)
plot( damage[,1], damage[,3], xlab="", ylab="Economic Damage", type="l", lwd=2)

# Fig. 3 of Katz (2002).
plot( damage[,"Year"], log( damage[,"Dam"]), xlab="Year", ylab="ln(Damage)", ylim=c(-10,5))

# Fig. 4 of Katz (2002).
qqnorm( log( damage[,"Dam"]), ylim=c(-10,5))