Adaptation of the optimal fingerprint method for climate change detection using a well-conditioned covariance matrix estimate

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 707-722

  Ribes, Aurélien ^a   Azaís, Jean Marc ^b   Planton, Serge ^a  

^a CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

^b INSTITUT DE MATHÉMATIQUES DE TOULOUSE   (France)

Author keywords

Anthropogenic climate change; Covariance matrix estimation; Detection; Optimal fingerprints

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE VARIATION; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; DATA SET; DETECTION METHOD; ESTIMATION METHOD; REGIONAL CLIMATE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

EID: 69249230975     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-009-0561-4     Document Type: Article

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