wheatrain {GLMsData}

Annual rainfall in the NSW wheat belt

Description

The annual rainfall for stations in the wheat-belt in the north and centre of New South Wales (Australia)

Usage

data(wheatrain)

Format

A data frame with 24 observations on the following 6 variables.

Station

the station name; a text vector

Alt

the station altitude (in metres); a numeric vector

Lat

the station latitude (in degrees south); a numeric vector

Lon

the station longitude (in degrees east); a numeric vector

AR

the stations' mean annual rainfall (in mm) between 1916 and 1990; a numeric vector

Region

the station's region, as computed by Boer et al. (1993) using a principal component analysis based on monthly rainfall; a numeric vector with levels 1, 2 and 3

Details

The data gives the mean annual rainfall for 24 stations in the wheat-belt of nsw. The mean rainfall is based on the year 1916 to 1990, apart from Station 1 (1907 to 1983), Station 10 (1916 to 1965) and Station 11 (1935 to 1976).

Source

Rizaldi Boer, David J. Fletcher, and Lindsay C. Campbell (1993) Rainfall patterns in a major wheat-growing region of Australia. Australian Journal of Agricultural Research, 44(2), 606–624.

Examples

data(wheatrain)
plot(AR ~ Region, data=wheatrain)