Panel and multivariate methods for tests of trend equivalence in climate data series

Atmospheric Science Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 270-277

  Mckitrick, Ross ^a   Mcintyre, Stephen ^b   Herman, Chad ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Panel regression; Trend comparisons; Tropical troposphere

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; DATA SET; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TREND ANALYSIS; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 79952802703     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1530261X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asl.290     Document Type: Article

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