paris_precipitation: Paris Monthly Precipitation 1688-2009

Description Format Source Examples

Description

The monthly precipitation (in mm) in Paris from 1688 to 2009.

Format

A uts object.

Source

This dataset was imported by download_paris_precipitation in January 2016 from a website by the NOAA National Climatic Data Center.

Slonosky, V.C. 2002. Wet winters, dry summers? Three centuries of precipitation data from Paris Geophys. Res. Lett., Vol. 29(19), 1895

Examples

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data(paris_precipitation)
plot(paris_precipitation, max_dt=ddays(31), type="o", cex=0.25)

# Most consecutive observations are one month apart
table(round(diff(time(paris_precipitation)) / 365 * 12))

# Plot 20-year two-sided rolling average
if (requireNamespace("utsOperators", quietly=TRUE)) {
  roll_avg <- utsOperators::rolling_apply(paris_precipitation, width=dyears(20), FUN=mean,
    align="center", interior=TRUE)
  plot(roll_avg, max_dt=dyears(1))
}

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