droughts {DAAG}

Periods Between Rain Events

Description

Data collected at Winnipeg International Airport (Canada) on periods (in days) between rain events.

Usage

droughts

Format

This data frame contains the following columns:

length

the length of time from the completion of the last rain event to the beginning of the next rain event.

year

the calendar year.

Examples

  boxplot(length ~ year, data=droughts)
  boxplot(log(length) ~ year, data=droughts)
  hist(droughts$length, main="Winnipeg Droughts", xlab="length (in days)")
  hist(log(droughts$length), main="Winnipeg Droughts", xlab="length (in days, log scale)")