rain_max_usa: Record rainfall totals from the USA

In rainfreq: Rainfall Frequency (Design Storm) Estimates from the US National Weather Service

Description

USA record point precipitation measurements from NOAA's National Weather Service, Hydrometeorological Design Studies Center. NOAA indicates that some records have not been verified.

Usage

data(rain_max_usa)

Format

Data frame with 8 columns and 19 rows

Details

Variables:

• Duration - duration of the rainfall event

• Amount_in - total rainfall amount in inches

• Amount_mm - total rainfall amount in millimeters

• Location - region and country names

• Lat - latitude in decimal degrees

• Lon - longitude in decimal degrees

• Start_Date - starting date of the rainfall event in yyyy-mm-dd format

• Estimate - Yes or blank; Yes if the record has not been verified.

Author(s)

Gopi Goteti

References

USA record point precipitation measurements, http://www.nws.noaa.gov/oh/hdsc/record_precip/record_precip_us.html, extracted May 18 2014.

rainfreq documentation built on May 1, 2019, 11:30 p.m.