Dunkerque {Renext}

Surge heights at Dunkerque

Description

Surge heights near high tide at Dunkerque tide gauge station (France)

Usage

Dunkerque

Format

The format is: List of 7

• $info : List of 6

  • $name : chr "Dunkerque"

  • $shortLab : chr "Surge Heights at Dunkerque (France)"

  • $longLab : chr "Surge Heights near high tide, Dunkerque (France)"

  • $varName : chr "Surge"

  • $varShortLab : chr "Surge"

  • $varUnit : chr "cm"

• $describe : chr "High tide sea surge over 30 cm at Dunkerque... "

• $OTinfo : List of 4

  • $start : POSIXct[1:1], format: "1956-01-01"

  • $end : POSIXct[1:1], format: "2009-01-01"

  • $effDuration: num 38.8

  • $threshold : num "30"

• $OTdata : 'data.frame': 740 obs. of 3 variables:

  • $date : POSIXct[1:740], format: "1956-11-27" "1956-12-03" ...

  • $Surge : num [1:740] 67.9 30.9 51.8 30.8 39.8 ...

  • $comment : chr [1:740] "" "" "" "" ...

• $OTmissing : 'data.frame': 83 obs. of 3 variables:

  • $start : POSIXct[1:83], format: "1956-01-01" "1956-08-08" ...

  • $end : POSIXct[1:83], format: "1956-06-07" "1956-11-03" ...

  • $comment: chr [1:83] "" "" "" "" ...

• $MAXinfo : 'data.frame' : 1 obs. of 3 variables:

  • $start : POSIXct[1:1], format: "1706-01-01"

  • $end : POSIXct[1:1], format: "1956-01-01"

  • $duration : num 250

• $MAXdata :'data.frame': 1 obs. of 4 variables:

  • $block : int 1

  • $date : POSIXct[1:1], format: "1953-02-01"

  • $Surge : num 213

  • $comment : chr "1"

  - attr(*, "class")= chr "Rendata"

Details

See Brest and Garonne datasets with the same list structure.

An 'historical' surge of 213 cm was observed on 1953-02-01 and is considered by experts as having a return period of 250 years.

Examples

Dunkerque$info
plot(Dunkerque)