Time scales and trends in the Central England temperature data (1659-1990): A wavelet analysis

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 1351-1354

  Baliunas, Sallie ^a   Frick, Peter ^b   Sokoloff, Dmitry ^c   Soon, Willie ^a  

^a HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF CONTINUOUS MEDIA MECHANICS   (Russian Federation)

^c MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; WAVELET ANALYSIS; ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

ADAPTIVE WAVELET TRANSFORMS; DATA TREND; INTERDECADAL; NATURAL VARIABILITY; SINGULAR SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE DATA; TIME DEPENDENCE; TIME-SCALES;

WAVELET TRANSFORMS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

ADAPTIVE WAVELET TRANSFORM ALGORITHM; CENTRAL ENGLAND TEMPERATURE (CET);

CLIMATE CHANGE; TEMPERATURE DATA (1659-1990); TEMPERATURE TREND; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

UK, ENGLAND, (CENTRAL);

EID: 0031284927     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL01184     Document Type: Article

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