Statistical characteristics of U.S. Historical Climatology Network temperature distributions

Climate Research

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 33-43

  Guttman, Nathaniel B ^a  

^a NATIONAL CLIMATIC DATA CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Climatic temperature data; Probability assessments; Statistical characteristics

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE TREND; HISTORICAL CLIMATE DATA; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYNTHETIC WEATHER GENERATOR;

USA;

EID: 0029776185     PISSN: 0936577X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/cr006033     Document Type: Article

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