tide {SMPracticals}R Documentation

Annual Maximum Sea Levels

Description

Annual maximum sea levels (m) at seven locations near to or in south-east England, between 1819–1986. There are many missing values.

Usage

data(tide)

Format

A data frame with 168 observations on the following 8 variables.

year

Year

Yarmouth

Annual maximum high tide at Yarmouth

Lowestoft

Annual maximum high tide at Lowestoft

Harwich

Annual maximum high tide at Harwich

Walton

Annual maximum high tide at Walton

Holland

Annual maximum high tide at a site in Holland

Southend

Annual maximum high tide at Southend

Sheerness

Annual maximum high tide at Sheerness

Source

The data were kindly provided by Professor Jonathan Tawn of Lancaster University.

References

Davison, A. C. (2003) Statistical Models. Cambridge University Press. Page 281.

Examples

data(tide)
plot(tide$year,tide$Yarmouth,type="l")

[Package SMPracticals version 1.4-3.1 Index]