A new method to detect transitory signatures and local time/space variability structures in the climate system: The scale-dependent correlation analysis

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 441-458

  Rodó, Xavier ^a   Rodríguez Arias, Miquel Ángel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIATION; CLIMATOLOGY; CORRELATION; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

EID: 33747484090     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-005-0106-4     Document Type: Article

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