climate {ClamR}R Documentation

Climate Record At Croig Cave

Description

Application to modern climate record at Croig Cave and make comparison between reconstructed temperatures and instrumentally measured temperatures.

Usage

data("climate")

Format

A data frame with 360 observations on the following 3 variables.

Month

a numeric vector

overall

a numeric vector

Temperature

a numeric vector

Source

Monthly sea surface temperature (SST) record for the years 1961-1990 derived from observations near Croig Cave, an archaeological site on the Isle of Mull in the Hebrides Islands west of mainland Scotland (Extended Reconstructed Sea Surface Temperature, Smith and Reynolds, 2004).

References

Wang, T., Surge, D., and Lees, J. M., (2015) ClamR: A Statistical Evaluation of Isotopic and Temperature Records in Sclerochronologic Studies. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2015.07.008.

Examples

data(climate)
climate_month <- climate$overall
climate_temp <- climate$Temperature

plot(climate_month,climate_temp,type="l",
    xlab="month",ylab=expression(paste("Temperature ("^"o","C)")))



[Package ClamR version 2.1-3 Index]