rain {ternvis}

Ternary precipitation forecast data set

Description

An array of monthly seasonal precipitation forecasts and observations over South America, covering 25 years.

Usage

data(rain)

Format

A list containing 7 objects

rain$lats a vector of 35 latitudes

rain$lons a vector of 27 longitudes

rain$obs array of ternary observations

rain$preds array of ternary forecast probabilities

rain$rel array of reliabilities

rain$res array of resolutions

rain$q array of climatologies

Source

Data from Caio Coelho at http://eurobrisa.cptec.inpe.br.

Examples

data(rain)

ilon <- 5 # pick a longitude
ilat <- 6 # pick a latitude
iyr  <- 17 # pick a year (in the range 1:25)

rain$lons[ilon]                # the longitude
rain$lats[ilat]                # the latitude
rain$pred[ilon,ilat,iyr,] # the ternary forecast
rain$obs[ilon,ilat,iyr,]  # the ternary observation