A characteristic time scale in the global temperature record

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 15, 1998, Pages 2821-2823

  Tsonis, A A ^a   Roebber, P J ^a   Eisner, J B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Global perspective; Temperature; Time series analysis

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; ESTIMATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TIME MEASUREMENT;

EL NINO CYCLE; GLOBAL TEMPERATURE RECORD; LA NINA CYCLE; TIME SCALE; CHARACTERISTIC TIME; EL NINO; GLOBAL TEMPERATURES; NEGATIVE TEMPERATURES; TIME-SCALES;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; TEMPERATURE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

EID: 0032148211     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98GL02055     Document Type: Article

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