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madeira: Rainfall Data from Madeira, Portugal

Description

Rainfall data from Madeira, Portugal, from January 1973 to June 2018.

Usage

madeira

Arguments

Format

The madeira data frame has 544 observations and 8 columns:

yearmonth

Year and month.

prec

Total monthly precipitation (0.01 inches).

amo

Atlantic multi-decadal oscillation.

nino34

El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO), expressed by the NINO3.4 index.

np

North Pacific Index (NPI).

pdo

Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO).

soi

Southern Oscillation Index (SOI).

nao

North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO).

Details

After eliminating the dry events (i.e., zero precipitation) and the missing precipitation data (two observations) one is left with a total of 532 observations, and that is the version of the data analyzed in de Carvalho et al (2022).

References

de Carvalho, M., Pereira, S., Pereira, S., and de Zea Bermudez, P. (2022). An extreme value Bayesian lasso for the conditional left and right tails. Journal of Agricultural, Biological and Environmental Statistics, 27, 222–239.