Detection of regional weekly weather cycles across Europe

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Laux, Patrick ^a   Kunstmann, Harald ^a  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Block bootstrap; Persistence; Weekly weather cycle; Weekly weather periodicities

Indexed keywords

BLOCK BOOTSTRAPS; DATA AVAILABILITY; EUROPEAN COUNTRIES; LARGE-SCALE CIRCULATION; PERSISTENCE; TEMPERATURE VARIABLES; WEEKLY WEATHER CYCLE; WEEKLY WEATHER PERIODICITIES;

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING;

EID: 62749096816     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/3/4/044005     Document Type: Article

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