Simultaneous detection of climate change and observing biases in a network with incomplete sampling

Journal of Climate

Volumn 20, Issue 15, 2007, Pages 4047-4062

  Sherwood, Steven C ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; RADIOSONDES; SAMPLING; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

IRREGULAR SAMPLING; RADIOSONDE DATASETS; SERIAL CORRELATION;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE SIGNAL; KRIGING; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; SAMPLING;

EID: 34548136927     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI4215.1     Document Type: Article

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