Annual Maximum Temperature in Dijon — TXMax

Annual Maxima for the series of daily Temperature maXimum (TX) in Dijon (Burgundy, France).

data("TXMax_Dijon")

Format

A data frame with 96 observations on the following 2 variables.

Year

Numeric vector giving the year.

TXMax

Numeric vector (with NA) giving the annual maximum of the daily maximum temperature (Celsius).

Details

The temperature in Celsius is recorded at Dijon-Longvic (France) one of the official french meteorological stations.

Source

The daily TX data are provided by European Data and Cimate Assessment https://www.ecad.eu, and were initially provided by Météo-France. They are available witin a Blended ECA dataset for daily data.

The annual maxima were computed excluding the years with a missing daily observation. An exception is the year 2016 for which one observation was missing (2016-06-16): the missing TX was checked to be smaller than the maxima over non-missing observations

Examples

plot(TXMax ~ Year, data = TXMax_Dijon, type = "o", pch = 16,
     col = "orangered", main = "Annual Maxima of Temperature in Dijon")


## Use the begining of a year as timestamp.
df <- within(TXMax_Dijon, Date <- as.Date(sprintf("%4d-01-01", Year)))