extRemes (version 2.2)

Tphap: Daily Maximum and Minimum Temperature in Phoenix, Arizona.

Description

Daily maximum and minimum temperature (degrees Fahrenheit) for July through August 1948 through 1990 at Sky Harbor airport in Phoenix, Arizona.

Usage

data(Tphap)

Format

A data frame with 43 observations on the following 3 variables.

Year

a numeric vector giving the number of years since 1900.

Month

a numeric vector giving the month.

Day

a numeric vector giving the day of the month.

MaxT

a numeric vector giving the daily maximum temperatures in degrees Fahrenheit.

MinT

a numeric vector giving the daily minimum temperatures in degrees Fahrenheit.

Details

Data are daily maximum and minimum temperature for the summer months of July through August from 1948 through 1990.

References

Balling, R. C., Jr., Skindlov, J. A. and Phillips, D. H. (1990) The impact of increasing summer mean temperatures on extreme maximum and minimum temperatures in Phoenix, Arizona. Journal of Climate, 3, 1491--1494.

Tarleton, L. F. and Katz, R. W. (1995) Statistical explanation for trends in extreme summer temperatures at Phoenix, A.Z. Journal of Climate, 8, (6), 1704--1708.

Examples

data(Tphap)
str(Tphap)

par( mfrow=c(2,1))
hist( Tphap[,"MaxT"], main="", xlab="Max Temp", xlim=c(60,120), freq=FALSE, breaks="FD", col="red")
hist( Tphap[,"MinT"], main="", xlab="Min Temp", xlim=c(60,120), freq=FALSE, breaks="FD", col="blue")