Homogeneity testing and adjustment of climatic time series in Finland

Geophysica

Volumn 38, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 15-41

  Tuomenvirta, Heikki ^a  

^a FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Climatological time series; Finland; Homogeneity testing; Metadata; Precipitation; Temperature

Indexed keywords

ADJUSTMENT MECHANISM; HOMOGENEITY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE; TIME SERIES;

FINLAND;

EID: 0036959289     PISSN: 03674231     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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