Statistical quality control for local-scale extreme temperatures. Case study: Lisbon, Portugal

Meteorological Applications

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 275-290

  Lucio, P S ^a,b   Serrano, A I ^a   Deus, R J R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ÉVORA   (Portugal)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO NORTE   (Brazil)

^c Instituto Nacional de Meteorologia   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Autocorrelation; Homogeneity tests; Moving range; Non parametric tests; Variance

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; AUTOCORRELATION; METEOROLOGY; QUALITY CONTROL; STRUCTURAL LOADS; TESTING; TIME SERIES;

METEOROLOGICAL FIELDS; METEOROLOGICAL STATION; MOVING RANGE; NON-PARAMETRIC TEST; OPTIMAL INTERPOLATION; STATISTICAL QUALITY CONTROL; TIME SERIES RECONSTRUCTION; VARIANCE;

TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

AIR TEMPERATURE; AUTOCORRELATION; EXTREME EVENT; METROPOLITAN AREA; QUALITY CONTROL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TESTING METHOD;

LISBOA [PORTUGAL]; LISBON; PORTUGAL;

EID: 34548781999     PISSN: 13504827     EISSN: 14698080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/met.30     Document Type: Article

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