Robust estimation of background noise and signal detection in climatic time series

Climatic Change

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 409-445

  Mann, Michael E ^a   Lees, Jonathan M ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE SIGNAL; HISTORICAL CLIMATE; METHOD EVALUATION; NOISE; PALAEOCLIMATE; TIME SERIES;

EID: 0029659539     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00142586     Document Type: Article

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