A contribution to attribution of recent global warming by out-of-sample Granger causality analysis

Atmospheric Science Letters

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 67-72

  Attanasio, Alessandro ^a   Pasini, Antonello ^b   Triacca, Umberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

^b CNR Institute of Atmospheric Pollution Research   (Italy)

Author keywords

Attribution; Global warming; Granger causality; Time series

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; GLOBAL WARMING; GRANGER CAUSALITY TEST; GREENHOUSE GAS; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

EID: 84856018539     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1530261X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asl.365     Document Type: Article

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