dataset_description: Climate USA Dataset

In Arthuro1/climate_change_r_package:

Climate USA Dataset

Description

This dataset contains values of temperature, heat waves index, drought severity index, co2 emissions and heavy precipitation area in the USA between the year 1901 and 2020.

Usage

data("climateset")

Format

A data frame with the following 6 variables.

Year

The different values are mesured from 1901 to 2020

drougth_severity_index_us

Drought Severity Index

The Palmer Drought Severity Index is the most widely used index to measure drought severity over time. Positive values mean wetter than average, negatives mean drier than average.

co2_emission_us

Annual Co2 Emissions

Based on ‘production’ or ‘territorial’ emissions (i.e. emissions from the burning of fossil fuels, or cement production within a country’s borders). It does not consider the emissions of traded goods (consumption-based emissions)

temperature_us

Contiguous U.S Average Temperature

heat_waves_index_us

Annual Heat Wave Index in the United States

This index defines a heat wave as a period lasting at least four days with an average temperature that would only be expected to occur once every 10 years, based on the historical record. The index value for a given year depends on how often heat waves occur and how widespread they are.

heavy_precipitation_area_us

Heavy Precipitation Area

This shows the percentage of the land area of the contiguous 48 states that experienced much greater than normal precipitation in any given year, which means it scored 2.0 or above on the annual Standardized Precipitation Index.

Source

• U.S. Temperature

• Drought Severity Index

• Annual Co2 Emissions

• Annual Heat Wave Index

• Heavy Precipitation Area

Examples

data(climateset)
## maybe str(climateset) ; plot(climateset$temperature_us) ...

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