Statistical relationships between the North Atlantic Oscillation and international tourism demand in the Balearic Islands, Spain

Climate Research

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 207-214

  Álvarez Díaz, Marcos ^a   Giráldez, Ma Soledad Otero ^a   González Gómez, Manuel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

Author keywords

ARDL; Autoregressive distributed lag; Balearic Islands; Cross correlation analysis; Granger causality test; International tourism demand; North Atlantic Oscillation

Indexed keywords

ARDL; AUTO-REGRESSIVE; BALEARIC ISLANDS; CROSS-CORRELATION ANALYSIS; GRANGER CAUSALITY TEST; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATIONS; TOURISM DEMAND;

CLIMATOLOGY; OCEANOGRAPHY;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CORRELATION; INTERNATIONAL TOURISM; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; TOURISM MANAGEMENT;

BALEARIC ISLANDS; GERMANY; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; SPAIN; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 78649832007     PISSN: 0936577X     EISSN: 16161572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/cr00931     Document Type: Article

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