The twentieth century contiguous US temperature changes indicated by daily data and higher statistical moments

Climatic Change

Volumn 109, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 287-317

  Shen, Samuel S P ^a   Gurung, Ai B ^b   Oh, Hee S ^c   Shu, T ^b   Easterling, David R ^d  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^d NOAA NATIONAL CLIMATIC DATA CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIRST MOMENTS; FOURTH-ORDER; FOURTH-ORDER MOMENTS; MEAN TEMPERATURE; MINIMUM SURFACES; STATISTICAL MOMENTS; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURES; TEMPERATURE CHANGES; TEMPERATURE FLUCTUATION; THIRD ORDER MOMENT; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; STATISTICAL METHODS;

PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ASSESSMENT METHOD; CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA SET; HISTOGRAM; LINEARITY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE INVERSION; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 81555203542     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-011-0033-9     Document Type: Article

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