ftcanmax {extRemes}R Documentation

Fort Collins, Colorado annual maximum precipitation.

Description

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.

Usage

data(ftcanmax)

Format

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

Year
a numeric vector giving the Year.
Prec
a numeric vector giving the annual maximum precipitation amount in inches.

Source

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

References

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., Parlange, Marc B. and Naveau, Philippe. Statistics of extremes in hydrology. Advances in Water Resources, 25:1287–1304, 2002.

Examples

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

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

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