Atmospheric response function over land: Strong asymmetries in daily temperature fluctuations

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 23, 2005, Pages 1-4

  Bartos, I ^a   Janosi I M ^a  

^a EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CORRELATION METHODS; GLOBAL WARMING; STATISTICAL METHODS; THERMAL EFFECTS;

ATMOSPHERIC RESPONSE FUNCTIONS; MEAN TEMPERATURE CHANGE STATISTICS; TEMPERATURE FLUCTUATIONS;

METEOROLOGY;

CLIMATE VARIATION; DIURNAL VARIATION; GLOBAL WARMING; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY;

EID: 31544464323     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL024559     Document Type: Article

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