Uncertainty in ranking the hottest years of U.S. surface temperatures

Journal of Climate

Volumn 26, Issue 17, 2013, Pages 6323-6328

  Guttorp, Peter ^a,b   Kim, Tae Yen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b NORWEGIAN COMPUTING CENTER   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTORICAL RECORDS; RANK DISTRIBUTIONS; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; TEMPORAL CORRELATIONS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; HISTORICAL RECORD; NUMERICAL MODEL; PROBABILITY; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WARMING;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84883165520     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00760.1     Document Type: Article

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