Long-term persistence in climate and the detection problem

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2006, Pages

  Rybski, Diego ^a   Bunde, Armin ^a   Havlin, Shlomo ^b   von Storch, Hans ^c  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CORRELATION METHODS; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION;

LONG-TERM PERSISTENCE; TEMPERATURE CHANGES;

CLIMATOLOGY;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; CORRELATION; FIELD METHOD; GLOBAL WARMING; NUMERICAL METHOD;

EID: 33646439582     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL025591     Document Type: Article

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