maiquetia: Maiquetia Daily Rainfall

In mev: Modelling of Extreme Values

Maiquetia Daily Rainfall

Description

Daily cumulated rainfall (in mm) at Maiquetia airport, Venezuela. The observations cover the period from January 1961 to December 1999. The original series had missing days in February 1996 (during which there were 2 days with 1hr each of light rain) and January 1998 (no rain). These were replaced by zeros.

Format

a vector of size 14244 containing daily rainfall (in mm),

Source

J.R. Cordova and M. González, accessed 25.11.2018 from <https://rss.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/14679876/series-c-datasets>

References

Coles, S. and L.R. Pericchi (2003). Anticipating Catastrophes through Extreme Value Modelling, Applied Statistics, 52(4), 405-416.

Coles, S., Pericchi L.R. and S. Sisson (2003). A fully probabilistic approach to extreme rainfall modeling, Journal of Hydrology, 273, 35-50.

Examples

## Not run: 
data(maiquetia, package = "mev")
day <- seq.Date(from = as.Date("1961-01-01"), to = as.Date("1999-12-31"), by = "day")
nzrain <- maiquetia[substr(day, 1, 4) < 1999 & maiquetia > 0]
fit.gpd(nzrain, threshold = 30, show = TRUE)


## End(Not run)

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