ElNino {rainbow}R Documentation

Sea surface temperature data set

Description

Monthly sea surface temperature from January 1951 to December 2007.

Usage

data(ElNino)

Format

An object of class fd.

Details

These temperatures are measured by the moored buoys in the "Nino region" defined by the coordinates 0-10 degree South and 90-80 degree West.

Source

The web link is http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/data/indices/sstoi.indices. The data is the third column with the title NINO1+2.

References

P. C. Besse and H. Cardot and D. B. Stephenson (2000) "Autoregressive forecasting of some functional climatic variations", Scandinavian Journal of Statistics, 27(4), 673-687.

A. Antoniadis and T. Sapatinas (2003) "Wavelet methods for continuous-time prediction using Hilbert-valued autoregressive processes", Journal of Multivariate Analysis, 87(1), 133-158.

F. Ferraty and A. Rabhi and P. Vieu (2005) "Conditional quantiles for dependent functional data with application to the climate El Nino phenomenon", Sankhya: The Indian Journal of Statistics, 67(2), 378-398.

Examples

plot(ElNino)

[Package rainbow version 1.1 Index]