newlyn {exdex}

Newlyn sea surges

Description

The vector newlyn contains 2894 maximum sea-surges measured at Newlyn, Cornwall, UK over the period 1971-1976. The observations are the maximum hourly sea-surge heights over contiguous 15-hour time periods.

Usage

newlyn

Format

A vector of length 2894.

Source

Coles, S.G. (1991) Modelling extreme multivariate events. PhD thesis, University of Sheffield, U.K.

References

Fawcett, L. and Walshaw, D. (2012) Estimating return levels from serially dependent extremes. Environmetrics, 23(3), 272-283. doi:10.1002/env.2133

Northrop, P. J. (2015) An efficient semiparametric maxima estimator of the extremal index. Extremes, 18, 585-603. doi:10.1007/s10687-015-0221-5