alps {DATAstudio}

Swiss Alps Temperature Data

Description

The alps data data consist of daily winter temperature minima and maxima measured at 2m above ground surface at two sites in the Swiss Alps: Montana and Zermatt.

Usage

alps

Format

The alps data frame contains the following columns:

• date: date of measurements.

• min_montana, min_zermatt: daily minimum temperature in ºC on Montana and Zermatt.

• min_montana, min_zermatt: daily maximum temperature in ºC on Montana and Zermatt.

Source

MeteoSwiss

References

Mhalla, L., de Carvalho, M., and Chavez-Demoulin, V. (2019) Regression type models for extremal dependence. Scandinavian Journal of Statistics, 46, 1141-1167.

Examples

## visualizing the data
data(alps)
oldpar <- par(pty = 's', mfrow = c(1, 2))
plot(alps$min_montana, alps$min_zermatt, pch = 20, 
     xlab = "Montana", ylab = "Zermatt", main = "Daily Minimum")
plot(alps$max_montana, alps$max_zermatt, pch = 20, 
     xlab = "Montana", ylab = "Zermatt", main = "Daily Maximum")
par(oldpar)

oldpar <- par(pty = 's', mfrow = c(1, 2))
plot(alps$min_montana, alps$max_montana, pch = 20, 
     xlab = "Minimum", ylab = "Maximum", main = "Montana")
abline(a = 0, b = 1, col = "red", lty = 2)
plot(alps$min_zermatt, alps$max_zermatt, pch = 20, 
     xlab = "Minimum", ylab = "Maximum", main = "Zermatt")
abline(a = 0, b = 1, col = "red", lty = 2)
par(oldpar)

## to download the NAO daily index in Mhalla et al (2019) use
## the R package data.table to access NOAA via ftp 
link <- "ftp://ftp.cdc.noaa.gov/Public/gbates/teleconn/nao.reanalysis.t10trunc.1948-present.txt"
NAO.daily <- data.table::fread(link)
NAO.daily <- data.frame(NAO.daily)
colnames(NAO.daily) <- c("year", "month", "day", "NAO")