An analysis of the fluctuations in the long-term annual mean air temperature data of Turkey

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 199-213

  Kömüşçü, Ali Ümran ^a  

^a Research Department   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Annual mean air temperature; Autocorrelation function; Cyclicity; Power spectra; Time series; Turkey

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

TURKEY;

EID: 0031981206     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0088(199802)18:2<199::AID-JOC234>3.0.CO;2-9     Document Type: Article

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