Are there spurious temperature trends in the United States Climate Division database?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2003, Pages

  Keim, Barry D ^a   Wilson, Adam M ^b   Wake, Cameron P ^b   Huntington, Thomas G ^c  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; DATA REDUCTION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; QUALITY CONTROL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; EARTH SCIENCES; GEOPHYSICS;

SPURIOUS TEMPERATURE; DATA SET; MULTIPLE REGRESSIONS; NEW ENGLAND; STATION LOCATION; TEMPERATURE TRENDS;

GEOPHYSICS; CLIMATE CHANGE;

ANOMALY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; DATA QUALITY; DATABASE; TEMPERATURE;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0141427633     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002GL016295     Document Type: Article

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