On the role of statistics in climate research

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 665-680

  Zwiers, Francis W ^a   Von Storch, Hans ^b  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^b INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Climate change; Climate diagnostics; Statistical climatology; Statistical methods; Weather forecasting

Indexed keywords

FORECASTING; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; OBSERVATORIES; SLATE; STATISTICAL METHODS;

CLIMATE SCIENCE; OBSERVATIONAL; SEASONAL FORECASTING;

CLIMATOLOGY;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 2442716146     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.1027     Document Type: Article

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