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saltriver
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Data from the
Salt River near Roosevelt, AZ, USA, for 1924-2006.
Description
The annual peak instantaneous flow of the Salt River near Roosevelt, AZ, USA,
for 1924-2009. Data are in cfs (0.028317 m3/s); water year October-September.
The data were examined in several papers related with extreme values in
hydrology. Among others, they were analyzed by Anderson and Meerschaert (1998)
and Dettinger and Diaz (2000), where they were fitted to a GEV and a GPD
distribution. In Quintela del Rio (2011), a nonparametric analysis for this
data set is made.
Usage
data(saltriver)
Format
A data frame with 85 observations on the following 2 variables.
year
Year
peakflow
The annual observed maximum peak flow
Source
US Geological Survey http://water.usgs.gov/nwis/peak.
References
Anderson, P.L. and Meerschaert, M.M. (1998) Modeling river flows with heavy
tails, Water Resources Research34, pp. 2271–2280.
Dettinger, M.D. and Diaz, H.F. (2000) Global characteristics of stream flow
seasonality and variability, Journal of Hydrometeorology1, pp.
289–310.
Quintela-del-Rio, A. (2011) On bandwidth selection for nonparametric estimation
in flood frequency analysis. Hydrological Processes25,
pp. 671–678.
Quintela-del-Rio, A. and Estevez-Perez, G. (2012)
Nonparametric Kernel Distribution Function Estimation with kerdiest:
An R Package for Bandwidth Choice and Applications,
Journal of Statistical Software50(8), pp. 1-21.
URL http://www.jstatsoft.org/v50/i08/.