EmeraldAug {SRMData} | R Documentation |
Emerald rainfall in Augusts
Description
The total monthly rainfall in Emerald, Australia, and the average monthly SOI.
Usage
data(EmeraldAug)
Format
A data frame with 114 rows (one per August over 114 years) and 4 columns:
- Year
The year
- Rain
The rainfall in August of the given year; in mm
- SOI
The monthly average Southern Oscillation Index (SOI)
- Phase
the SOI phase (see Stone and Auliciems, 1992); a factor with these values: 1 (consistently negative), 2 (consistently positive), 3 (rapidly falling), 4 (rapidly rising), or 5 (consistently near zero)
Source
Data obtained from the Australian Bureau of Meteorology (<http://www.bom.gov.au>) and iri/ldeo Climate Data Library (<http://www.longpaddock.qld.gov.au/seasonalclimateoutlook/southernoscillationindex/soidatafiles/index.php>) on 21 December 2010, then compiled. The values of the SOI used here is that used by LongPaddock, which is slightly different than that used by the BoM (based on a different period of standardisation), because the SOI Phases are computed from these SOI values.
R. C. Stone and A. Auliciems (1992). SOI phase relationships with rainfall in eastern Australia, International Journal of Climatology, 12, 625–636.
References
Dunn, Peter K., and Gordon K. Smyth. 2018. Generalized Linear Models with Examples in R. Springer.