FtCoPrec              package:extRemes              R Documentation

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_D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n:

     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.

_U_s_a_g_e:

     data(FtCoPrec)

_F_o_r_m_a_t:

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

_S_o_u_r_c_e:

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

_R_e_f_e_r_e_n_c_e_s:

     Gilleland, Eric and Katz, Richard W. Tutorial for the 'Extremes
     Toolkit: Weather and Climate Applications of Extreme Value
     Statistics.' <URL: 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.

_E_x_a_m_p_l_e_s:

     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.

