quilpie {GLMsData}

Total July rainfall at Quilpie

Description

The total July rainfall at Quilpie, Queensland, Australia from 1921 to 1988

Usage

data(quilpie)

Format

A data frame with 68 observations on the following 6 variables.

Year

the year; a numeric vector

Rain

the total monthly July rainfall in millimetres; a numeric vector

SOI

the July average southern oscillation index, or 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)

Exceed

an indicator for whether or not the total monthly July rainfall exceeds 10 millimetres: a factor where Yes means the rainfall exceeds 10mm, and No means the rainfall is 10mm or less

y

an indicator for whether or not the total monthly July rainfall exceeds 10 millimetres: a factor where 1 means the rainfall exceeds 10mm, and 0 means the rainfall is 10mm or less

Source

Data obtained from iri/ldeo Climate Data Library (formerly http://ingrid.ldgo.columbia.edu now http://iridl.ldeo.columbia.edu) on 26 May 2009.

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(quilpie)
plot( Rain ~ SOI, data=quilpie)
plot( Rain ~ factor(Phase), data=quilpie)