summer and winter data: Air pollution data, separately for summer and winter months
Description
Air pollution data from Leeds (U.K.) city centre, collected from 1994 to
1998. The summer data set corresponds to the months of April to July
inclusive. The winter data set corresponds to the months of November
to February inclusive. Some outliers have been removed, as discussed by
Heffernan and Tawn, 2004.
Arguments
Format
Data frames with 578 (summer) and 532 (winter) observations on the
following 5 variables.
O3
Daily maximum ozone in
parts per billion.
NO2
Daily maximum NO2 in parts per
billion.
NO
Daily maximum NO in parts per billion.
SO2
Daily maximum SO2 in parts per billion.
PM10
Daily maximum PM10 in micrograms/metre^3
References
J. E. Heffernan and J. A. Tawn, A conditional approach for
multivariate extreme values, Journal of the Royal Statistical society B, 66,
497 -- 546, 2004