perth {hmmr}

Perth dams water levels.

Description

Data from the Water Corporation of Western Australia. They state the following about these data on their website: "Streamflow is the amount of water entering our dams from our catchments and is measured by changing water storage levels." This dataset has the annual averages of these storage levels.

Usage

data(perth)

Format

A data.frame consisting of the following variable:

water

water level (in GL)

year

year

wtmin1

water level in the previous year (GL)

Source

These data are provided by the Water Corporation of Western Australia and can be found here: https://www.watercorporation.com.au/water-supply/rainfall-and-dams/streamflow/streamflowhistorical

Examples

# the data is first changed to a timeseries object and then plotted
data(perth)
wts <- ts(perth$water,start=1911)
plot(wts,ylab="GL", main="Perth dams water inflow", xlab="year", frame=FALSE, xaxp=c(1910,2020,10))