Many of the datasets below have been compiled as .csv files. Click on the link to automatically download the file. If this doesn't work, please email rls@email.unc.edu and I'll try to fix it.

Climate extremes data (current ongoing project)

Weblink for the project
Annual maximum temperatures in Kelowna, BC
Daily temperatures at Kelowna Airport (the annual maxima are derived from this; original source of data is here)
Annual maximum temperatures at London Heathrow Airport - source
Maximum 7-day precipitations at Houston Hobby Airport - source
Global mean temperature anomalies
Pacific Northwest regional summer mean anomalies
Northern Europe regional summer mean anomalies
Gulf of Mexico sea surface temperature mean
The global mean, Pacific Northwest and North Europe anomalies are all derived from the HadCRUT5 dataset. The Gulf of Maxico SST means were calculated from HadISST1 data.

River Nidd data (originally analyzed by Davison and Smith, 1990; updated to 2018)

Nidd annual maxima data
Nidd POT data
Nidd POT data with headers
Sample R code using extRemes package

Women's track times (Robinson and Tawn 1995, Smith 1997, Applied Statistics):

Women's 1500m. data (best 5 times per year)
Women's 3000m. data (best 5 times per year)
R code for records analysis
Stored data from MCMC output

Insurance Data:

Simulated Insurance Dataset. Designed to reproduce the main features of the dataset analyzed by Smith and Goodman 2000 (132 exceedances over 2.5; 132 observations in 6 types)

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