Fort {extRemes}

Daily precipitation amounts in Fort Collins, Colorado.

Description

Daily precipitation amounts (inches) from a single rain gauge in Fort Collins, Colorado. See Katz et al. (2002) Sec. 2.3.1 for more information and analyses.

Usage

data(Fort)

Format

A data frame with dimension 36524 by 5. Columns are: "obs", "tobs", "month", "day", "year" and "Prec"; where "Prec" is the daily precipitation amount (inches).

Source

Originally from the Colorado Climate Center at Colorado State University. The Colorado state climatologist office no longer provides this data without charge. The data can be obtained from the NOAA/NCDC web site, but there are slight differences (i.e., some missing values for temperature).

References

Katz, R. W., Parlange, M. B. and Naveau, P. (2002) Statistics of extremes in hydrology. Advances in Water Resources, 25, 1287–1304.

Examples

data(Fort)
str(Fort)
plot(Fort[,"month"], Fort[,"Prec"], xlab="month", ylab="daily precipitation (inches)")