USHCNTemp {SpatialExtremes}

Summer/Winter annual maxima/minima temperature in continental US.

Description

Summer maxima/Winter minima temperatures over the years 1911–2010 observed at 424 weather stations located in continental USA.

Usage

data(USHCNTemp)

Format

This data set contains three R objects: 'maxima.summer', 'minima.winter' and 'metadata'. 'maxima.summer' is a 100 by 424 matrix giving the temperature in degrees, each column correspond to one location. 'minima.winter is a 99 by 424 matrix giving the temperature in degrees, each column correspond to one location. 'metadata' is a 424 by 5 data frame giving station identifier, the longitude, latitude, elevation and the state for each station.

Author(s)

Mathieu Ribatet

Examples

data(USHCNTemp)
##require(maps) ## <<-- to plot US borders
maps::map("usa")
plot(metadata[,2:3], pch = 15)