ftcanmax              package:extRemes              R Documentation

_F_o_r_t _C_o_l_l_i_n_s, _C_o_l_o_r_a_d_o _a_n_n_u_a_l _m_a_x_i_m_u_m _p_r_e_c_i_p_i_t_a_t_i_o_n.

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

     Annual maximum precipitation (inches) for one rain gauge in Fort
     Collins, Colorado from 1900 through 1999. See Katz et al. (2002)
     Sec. 2.3.1 for more information and analyses.

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

     data(ftcanmax)

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

     A data frame with 100 observations on the following 2 variables.

     _Y_e_a_r a numeric vector giving the Year.

     _P_r_e_c a numeric vector giving the annual maximum precipitation
          amount in inches.

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

     Colorado Climate Center, Colorado State University (<URL:
     http://ulysses.atmos.colostate.edu>). The annual maximum
     precipitation data is taken from daily precipitation data.

_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(ftcanmax)
     str(ftcanmax)
     plot(ftcanmax, type="l", lwd=2)

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

