tide {SMPracticals}R Documentation

Annual Maximum Sea Levels

Description

Annual maximum sea levels (m) at seven locations near to or in south-east England, between 1819–1986. There are many missing values.

Usage

data(tide)

Format

A data frame with 168 observations on the following 8 variables.

year
Year
Yarmouth
Annual maximum high tide at Yarmouth
Lowestoft
Annual maximum high tide at Lowestoft
Harwich
Annual maximum high tide at Harwich
Walton
Annual maximum high tide at Walton
Holland
Annual maximum high tide at a site in Holland
Southend
Annual maximum high tide at Southend
Sheerness
Annual maximum high tide at Sheerness

Source

The data were kindly provided by Professor Jonathan Tawn of Lancaster University.

References

Davison, A. C. (2003) Statistical Models. Cambridge University Press. Page 281.

Examples

data(tide)
plot(tide$year,tide$Yarmouth,type="l")

[Package SMPracticals version 1.3 Index]