dailyrainfall: Daily rainfall data

In mevr: Fitting the Metastatistical Extreme Value Distribution MEVD

Daily rainfall data

Description

A dataset containing daily rainfall intended to be used with the package mevr

Usage

data(dailyrainfall)

Format

The dataset contains real world daily rainfall observations from a station in the northern Alps. The series contains values from 1971 to 1985 and are assumed to be Weibull distributed. This data series is intended to be used as is as input data for the package mevr to fit the metastatistical extreme value distribution and its variants with different estimation methods.

The dataset is a dataframe with two columns, dates and val:

dates

Days of class Date in the format YYYY-MM-DD

val

Rainfall observations corresponding to the date in the row. The value is the 24 hour sum from the morning hours of day-1 to the morning hours of day.

Examples

## Load example data
data(dailyrainfall)

## explore dataset
head(dailyrainfall)
hist(dailyrainfall$val)
plot(dailyrainfall$val, type = "o")

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