uccle720m: 20th century Uccle maximum daily temperatures in July -...

uccle720mR Documentation

20th century Uccle maximum daily temperatures in July - matrix

Description

The matrix uccle720m contains daily maximum temperatures in degrees C recorded at the Uccle, Belgium during July for the years 1901 to 1999. The Station identifier in the source file is 17 and the Source identifier is 117882. These data are analysed in Holesovsky and Fusek (2020).

Usage

uccle720m

Format

A 31 by 100 numeric matrix. Column i contains the maximum daily temperature in degrees C at Uccle in the year 1900 + i - 1. The columns are named 1900, 1901, ..., 1999 and the rows are named after the day of the month: 1, 2, .., 31.

Note

There are 6 missing values, one located in each of the years 1925, 1926, 1956, 1963, 1969 and 1976.

Source

Klein Tank, A.M.G. and Coauthors, 2002. Daily dataset of 20th-century surface air temperature and precipitation series for the European Climate Assessment. Int. J. of Climatol., 22, 1441-1453 \Sexpr[results=rd]{tools:::Rd_expr_doi("10.1002/joc.773")}. Data and metadata available at https://www.ecad.eu. The data were downloaded on 27/3/2022 using a Custom query (ASCII), selecting "non-blend" for type of series.

References

Holesovsky, J. and Fusek, M. Estimation of the extremal index using censored distributions. Extremes, 23, 197-213 (2020). \Sexpr[results=rd]{tools:::Rd_expr_doi("10.1007/s10687-020-00374-3")}

Examples

uccle720_ts <- ts(uccle720$temp, start = c(1901, 1), frequency = 31)
plot(uccle720_ts, ylab = "daily maximum temperature in July / degrees C",
     xlab = "year")

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