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