emeraldaug {GLMsData}

August monthly rainfall in Emerald

Description

The total monthly rainfall in Emerald, Australia, and the average monthly soi

Usage

data(emeraldaug)

Format

A data frame with 114 observations on the following 3 variables.

Year

the year; a numeric vector

Rain

the total monthly rainfall in August of the given year; a numeric vector

SOI

the monthly average southern oscillation index (soi); a numeric vector

Phase

the soi phase (see Stone and Auliciems, 1992); a factor with these values: 1 (consistently negative), 2 (consistently positive), 3 (rapidly falling), 4 (rapidly rising), or 5 (consistently near zero)

Details

The data give the total monthly rainfall and monthly in Emerald, Queensland, Australia, from 1889 to 2002, and the average soi for the corresponding month.

Source

Data obtained from the Australian Bureau of Meteorology (http://www.bom.gov.au) and iri/ldeo Climate Data Library (http://www.longpaddock.qld.gov.au/seasonalclimateoutlook/southernoscillationindex/soidatafiles/index.php) on 21 December 2010, then compiled.

References

R. C. Stone and A. Auliciems (1992) soi phase relationships with rainfall in eastern Australia, International Journal of Climatology, 12, 625–636.

Examples

data(emeraldaug)
plot(emeraldaug)