madeira: Rainfall Data from Madeira, Portugal
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Rainfall Data from Madeira, Portugal
Description
Rainfall data from Madeira, Portugal, from January 1973 to June 2018.
Usage
madeira
Format
The madeira data frame has 544 observations and 8 columns:
yearmonth: Year and month.prec: Total monthly precipitation (.01 inches).amo: Atlantic multi-decadal oscillation.nino34: El Niño-southern oscillation (ENSO), expressed by NINO34 index.np: North pacific index (NPI).pdo: Pacific decadal oscillation (PDO).soi: Southern oscillation index (SOI).nao: North atlantic oscillation (NAO).
Details
After eliminating the dry events (i.e., zero precipitation) and the missing precipitation data (two observations) one is left with a total of 532 observations, and that is the version of the data analyzed in de Carvalho et al (2022)
Source
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
References
de Carvalho, M., Pereira, S., Pereira, S. and de Zea Bermudez, P. (2022, in press). An extreme value Bayesian lasso for the conditional left and right tails. Journal of Agricultural, Biological and Environmental Statistics.
