Which significance test performs the best in climate simulations?

Tellus, Series A: Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 23139-

  Decremer, Damien ^a   Chung, Chul E ^a   Ekman, Annica M L ^b   Brandefelt, Jenny ^c  

^a Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST)   (South Korea)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Autocorrelation; Climate noise; Internal variability; Significance test; Student's t test; Temporal correlation

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; AUTOCORRELATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGIONAL CLIMATE; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TESTING METHOD; CLIMATE VARIATION;

EID: 84894436620     PISSN: 02806495     EISSN: 16000870     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/tellusa.v66.23139     Document Type: Article

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