rain_max_world: Record rainfall totals from around the world

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

Description

World 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_world)

Format

Data frame with 8 columns and 47 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 if the record has not been verified, blank otherwise

Author(s)

Gopi Goteti

References

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

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