A method of homogenizing the extremes and mean of daily temperature measurements

Journal of Climate

Volumn 19, Issue 17, 2006, Pages 4179-4197

  Della Marta, Paul M ^a,b   Wanner, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION;

CUMULATIVE DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION; DAILY TEMPERATURE DATA;

CLIMATOLOGY;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ESTIMATION METHOD; LONG-TERM CHANGE; MEASUREMENT METHOD; NONLINEARITY; NUMERICAL MODEL;

AUSTRIA; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GRAZ; STYRIA;

EID: 33749079419     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI3855.1     Document Type: Article

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