The effect of successive correction on variability estimates for climatological datasets

Journal of Climate

Volumn 13, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 1845-1857

  Kent, Elizabeth C ^a   Taylor, Peter K ^a   Challenor, Peter G ^a  

^a NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OCEANOGRAPHY; WIND;

EMPIRICAL ORTHOGONAL FUNCTIONS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; VARIABILITY ANALYSIS;

CLIMATOLOGY;

CORRECTION; DATA QUALITY; DATA SET; SMOOTHING;

EID: 0034210561     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(2000)013<1845:TEOSCO>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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