Hurricane: Hurricane dataset for the North Atlantic region (up to 2017).

In QBAsyDist: Asymmetric Distributions and Quantile Estimation

Description

This is a dataset of the strongest hurricanes in the North Atlantic region. The dataset is a clean up version of the dataset AL which is available in the HURDAT package.

Usage

Hurricane

Format

A data frame with 1831 rows and 3 variables:

Year

Year of the tropical cyclone occure (up to 2017)

Key

Unique key identifying the tropical cyclone. Formatted like AABBCCCC where AA is Basin, BB is YearNum and CC is Year

WmaxST

Maximum Wind Speed (in knots per hour) of the strongest hurricanes in the North Atlantic region

Examples

data(Hurricane)
y=Hurricane$WmaxST
x=Hurricane$Year
plot(x,y)

Example output

QBAsyDist documentation built on Sept. 4, 2019, 1:05 a.m.