Summarising changes in air temperature over Central Europe by quantile regression and clustering

Natural Hazards and Earth System Science

Volumn 11, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 3227-3233

  Barbosa, S M ^a   Scotto, M G ^b   Alonso, A M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; BOOTSTRAPPING; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TREND ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CENTRAL EUROPE;

EID: 84855548019     PISSN: 15618633     EISSN: 16849981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/nhess-11-3227-2011     Document Type: Article

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