Severe Storms in Germany

Description

According to the Beaufort scale, severe storms occur from a wind speed of 24.5-28.4 m/s. This dataset contains annual severe storm counts from weather stations in Germany from 1981 to 2021.

Usage

data("storms", package = "gamlss2")

Format

A data frame containing 3494 observations on 8 variables.

id
Factor, the weather station id.
county
Character, the county in Germany where the weather station is located.
state
Character, the state in Germany where the weather station is located.
year
Integer, the year the observation was measured.
counts
Integer, the number of severe storms in this year.
alt
Numeric, the altitude in meters above sea level of the weather station.
lon
Numeric, the longitude coordinate of the weather station.
lat
Numeric, the latitude coordinate of the weather station.

Source

Severe Storms Data:

Data Source:
Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD), Climate Data Center (CDC).
Licence:
CC BY 4.0
URL:
https://opendata.dwd.de/climate_environment/CDC/
Coordinate Reference System:
Longitude/latitude and the WGS84 datum.

Examples

library("gamlss2")

## load the data
data("storms", package = "gamlss2")

## yearly observations
plot(counts ~ year, data = storms)

## count distribution
barplot(table(storms$counts))

## NBI model
## model formula including spatial effect
  s(year) + s(alt) + s(lon, lat)

## estimate model
b <- gamlss2(f, data = storms, family = NBI)

## estimated effects
plot(b)

## residual diagnostics
plot(b, which = "resid")