Nonparametric testing of variability and trend in some climatic records

Climatic Change

Volumn 109, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 549-568

  Halley, John M ^a   Kugiumtzis, Dimitris ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTO REGRESSIVE PROCESS; GLOBAL TEMPERATURES; HURST EXPONENTS; NATURAL AGENTS; NON-PARAMETRIC TEST; NONPARAMETRIC TESTING; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; NULL HYPOTHESIS; PALEOCLIMATE RECONSTRUCTION; PARAMETRIC STUDY; R/S ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL EVIDENCE; TEMPERATURE TRENDS;

FOURIER SERIES; GLOBAL WARMING; STATISTICAL TESTS; TIME SERIES;

TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHM; GLOBAL WARMING; LINEARITY; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PALEOCLIMATE; PARAMETERIZATION; RECONSTRUCTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TIME SERIES;

EID: 81555214475     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-011-0053-5     Document Type: Article

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