Homogenization of mean monthly temperature time series of Greece

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 33, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 2649-2666

  Mamara, A ^a,b   Argiriou, A A ^b   Anadranistakis, M ^a  

^a Hellenic National Meteorological Service   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Climatol; Greece; Homogenization; MASH; Monthly temperature time series

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL MEAN TEMPERATURES; CLIMATOL; GREECE; MASH; METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATION; METEOROLOGICAL STATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY;

CLIMATE CHANGE; HOMOGENIZATION METHOD; TIME SERIES;

TESTING;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; DETECTION METHOD; INHOMOGENEITY; INSTRUMENTATION; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

GREECE;

EID: 84885460618     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.3614     Document Type: Article

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