co2 {datasets} | R Documentation

## Mauna Loa Atmospheric CO2 Concentration

### Description

Atmospheric concentrations of CO2 are expressed in parts per million (ppm) and reported in the preliminary 1997 SIO manometric mole fraction scale.

### Usage

    co2

### Format

A time series of 468 observations; monthly from 1959 to 1997.

### Details

The values for February, March and April of 1964 were missing and have been obtained by interpolating linearly between the values for January and May of 1964.

### Source

Keeling, C. D. and Whorf, T. P., Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO), University of California, La Jolla, California USA 92093-0220.

ftp://cdiac.esd.ornl.gov/pub/maunaloa-co2/maunaloa.co2.

### References

Cleveland, W. S. (1993) Visualizing Data. New Jersey: Summit Press.

### Examples

    require(graphics)
    plot(co2, ylab = expression("Atmospheric concentration of CO"[2]),
         las = 1)
    title(main = "co2 data set")

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