The stochastic properties of high daily maximum temperatures applying crossing theory to modeling high-temperature event variables

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 108, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 579-590

  Keellings, David ^a   Waylen, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; HIGH TEMPERATURE; MODELING; SPATIAL DATA; STOCHASTICITY; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; THEORETICAL STUDY;

FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84860445835     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-011-0553-2     Document Type: Article

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