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FCwx

Fort Collins, Colorado Weather Data


Description

Weather data from Fort Collins, Colorado, U.S.A. from 1900 to 1999.

Usage

data(FCwx)

Format

The format is: chr "FCwx"

Details

Data frame with components:

Year: integer years from 1900 to 1999,

Mn: integer months from 1 to 12,

Dy: integer days of the month (i.e., from 1 to 28, 29, 30 or 31 depending on the month/year),

MxT: integer valued daily maximum temperature (degrees Fahrenheit),

MnT: integer valued daily minimum temperature (degrees Fahrenheit),

Prec: numeric giving the daily accumulated precipitation (inches),

Snow: numeric daily accumulated snow amount,

SnCv: numeric daily snow cover amount

Source

Originally from the Colorado Climate Center at Colorado State University. The Colorado state climatologist office no longer provides this data without charge. The data can be obtained from the NOAA/NCDC web site, but there are slight differences (i.e., some missing values for temperature).

References

Katz, R. W., Parlange, M. B. and Naveau, P. (2002) Statistics of extremes in hydrology. Advances in Water Resources, 25, 1287–1304.

Examples

data(FCwx)
str(FCwx)
plot(FCwx$Mn, FCwx$Prec)
plot(1:36524, FCwx$MxT, type="l")

extRemes

Extreme Value Analysis

v2.1
GPL (>= 2)
Authors
Eric Gilleland
Initial release
2020-11-20

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