Change-point analysis as a tool to detect abrupt climate variations

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 370, Issue 1962, 2012, Pages 1228-1249

  Beaulieu, Claudie ^a   Chen, Jie ^b   Sarmiento, Jorge L ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Abrupt climate change; Autocorrelation; Change point detection; Regime shift

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATION; CHEMICAL DETECTION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; STATISTICS;

ABRUPT CLIMATE CHANGE; CHANGE-POINT ANALYSIS; CHANGE-POINT DETECTION; CHANGE-POINTS; CLIMATE MONITORING; CLIMATE VARIATION; DECISION RULES; MISSPECIFICATION; REGIME SHIFT; SHIFT DETECTION; SHIFT-AND; SIMULATION STUDIES; STANDARD DEVIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

CORRELATION DETECTORS;

EID: 84863116010     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2011.0383     Document Type: Article

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