Anomalies function

Annual precipitation anomalies in U.S.

A ($7252 x 3$)-matrix containing lon/lat and yearly total precipitation anomalies registered at 7.352 location sites in USA.

data(anomalies)

Format

A numerical matrix of dimension $7252 x 3$.

Source

Kaufman, C.G., Schervish, M.J., Nychka, D.W. (2008) Covariance tapering for likelihood-based estimation in large spatial data sets. Journal of the American Statistical Association, Theory & Methods, 103 , 1545--1555.