extRemes (version 1.65)

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 the tutorial at http://www.isse.ucar.edu/extremevalues/evtk.html for examples using extRemes.

References

Katz, R. W. (2002) Stochastic modeling of hurricane damage. Journal of Applied Meteorology, 41, 754--762.

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

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))