Tphap {extRemes} | R Documentation |
Daily maximum and minimum temperature (degrees Fahrenheit) for July through August 1948 through 1990 at Sky Harbor airport in Phoenix, Arizona.
data(Tphap)
A data frame with 43 observations on the following 3 variables.
Data is daily maximum and minimum temperature for the summer months of July through August from 1948 through 1990.
U.S. National Weather Service Forecast office at the Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport.
Balling, R.C., Jr., Skindlov, J.A. and Phillips, D.H., The impact of increasing summer mean temperatures on extreme maximum and minimum temperatures in Phoenix, Arizona. Journal of Climate, 3:1491–1494, 1990.
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.
Tarleton, Lesley F. and Katz, Richard W., Statistical explanation for trends in extreme summer temperatures at Phoenix, A.Z., Journal of Climate, 8 (6):1704–1708, 1995.
data(Tphap) str(Tphap) par( mfrow=c(2,1)) hist( Tphap[,"MaxT"], main="", xlab="Max Temp", xlim=c(60,120), freq=FALSE, breaks="FD", col="red") hist( Tphap[,"MinT"], main="", xlab="Min Temp", xlim=c(60,120), freq=FALSE, breaks="FD", col="blue") par( mfrow=c(1,1)) # See Gilleland et al. (2005) for more examples using these data with extRemes.