Monte Carlo experiments on the detection of trends in extreme values

Journal of Climate

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1945-1952

  Zhang, Xuebin ^a   Zwiers, Francis W ^a   Li, Guilong ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

LEAST SQUARES REGRESSION;

CLIMATOLOGY;

MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL METHOD; TREND ANALYSIS;

EID: 2442677561     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(2004)017<1945:MCEOTD>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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