Rsum {extRemes} | R Documentation |
This dataset gives the number of hurricanes per year (from 1925 to 1995) as well as the ENSO state and total monetary damage.
data(Rsum)
A data frame with 71 observations on the following 4 variables.
More information on these data can be found in Pielke and Landsea (1998) or Katz (2002).
http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/pielke/hp_roger/hurr_norm/data.html
Gilleland, Eric and Katz, Richard W. Tutorial for the 'Extremes Toolkit: Weather and Climate Applications of Extreme Value Statistics.' http://www.assessment.ucar.edu/toolkit, 2005.
Katz, Richard W., Stochastic modeling of hurricane damage. Journal of Applied Meteorology, 41:754–762, 2002.
Pielke, Roger A. and Landsea, CW., Normalized hurricane damages in the United States: 1925-95. Weather and Forecasting, 13 (3):621–631, 1998.
data(Rsum) str(Rsum) plot(Rsum) # Reproduce Fig. 1 of Katz (2002). plot( Rsum[,"Year"], Rsum[,"TDam"]/1000, type="h", xlab="Year", ylab="Total damage (billion U.S. dollars)", ylim=c(0,80), lwd=2) # Reproduce Fig. 2 of Katz (2002). plot(Rsum[,"Year"],Rsum[,"Ct"],type="h", xlab="Year", ylab="Number of Hurricanes", ylim=c(0,5), lwd=2) # See Gilleland et al. (2005) for more examples using these data with extRemes.