"Eyeballing" trends in climate time series: A cautionary note

Journal of Climate

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 886-891

  Percival, Donald B ^a   Rothrock, D Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

CLIMATOLOGY;

CLIMATE CHANGE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TREND ANALYSIS;

EID: 17144430103     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-3300.1     Document Type: Article

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