co2_ml: Mauna Loa Atmospheric CO2 Concentration

In andreas50/utsData: Example Data Sets of Unevenly Spaced Time Series

Description

The monthly average atmospheric CO2 concentration (in parts per million), as measured at the Mauna Loa observatory.

Format

A uts object.

Source

This dataset was imported by download_co2_ml in June 2018 from a website by the NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory.

Dr. Pieter Tans, NOAA/ESRL (www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/trends/) and Dr. Ralph Keeling, Scripps Institution of Oceanography (scrippsco2.ucsd.edu/).

See Also

download_co2_ml gets the most recent data.

co2_20ma for a 20 million year reconstruction.

The co2 dataset in base R is very similar, but ends in 1997 and has several missing values filled in using linear interpolation.

Examples

data(co2_ml)
plot(co2_ml)

# Most consecutive observations are one month apart
table(round(diff(co2_ml$times) * 12 / 365))

andreas50/utsData documentation built on May 13, 2019, 12:52 p.m.