rainbow (version 1.1)

ElNino: Sea surface temperature data set

Description

Monthly sea surface temperature from January 1951 to December 2007.

Usage

data(ElNino)

format

An object of class fd.

source

The web link is http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/data/indices/sstoi.indices. The data is the third column with the title NINO1+2.

Details

These temperatures are measured by the moored buoys in the "Nino region" defined by the coordinates 0-10 degree South and 90-80 degree West.

References

P. C. Besse and H. Cardot and D. B. Stephenson (2000) "Autoregressive forecasting of some functional climatic variations", Scandinavian Journal of Statistics, 27(4), 673-687. A. Antoniadis and T. Sapatinas (2003) "Wavelet methods for continuous-time prediction using Hilbert-valued autoregressive processes", Journal of Multivariate Analysis, 87(1), 133-158. F. Ferraty and A. Rabhi and P. Vieu (2005) "Conditional quantiles for dependent functional data with application to the climate El Nino phenomenon", Sankhya: The Indian Journal of Statistics, 67(2), 378-398.

Examples

plot(ElNino)