damage {extRemes} | R Documentation |
Estimated economic damage (billions USD) caused by hurricanes.
data(damage)
A data frame with 144 observations on the following 3 variables.
More information on these data can be found in Pielke and Landsea (1998) or Katz (2002). Also see Gilleland et al. (2005) for examples using extRemes.
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(damage) plot( damage[,1], damage[,3], xlab="", ylab="Economic Damage", type="l", lwd=2) # Fig. 3 of Katz (2002). plot( damage[,"Year"], log( damage[,"Dam"]), xlab="Year", ylab="ln(Damage)", ylim=c(-10,5)) # Fig. 4 of Katz (2002). qqnorm( log( damage[,"Dam"]), ylim=c(-10,5))