Northern hemisphere climatology and trends of statistical moments documented from GHCN-daily surface air temperature station data from 1950 to 2010

Journal of Climate

Volumn 27, Issue 14, 2014, Pages 5396-5410

  Cavanaugh, Nicholas R ^a   Shen, Samuel S P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anomalies; Climate variability; Climatology; Intraseasonal variability; Temperature; Trends

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; HIGHER ORDER STATISTICS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; TEMPERATURE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ANOMALIES; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; COHERENT SPATIAL PATTERNS; INTRASEASONAL VARIABILITY; LINEAR REGRESSION COEFFICIENTS; MEAN AND STANDARD DEVIATIONS; SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURES; TRENDS;

STATISTICS;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PROBABILITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEASONAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84904508344     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00470.1     Document Type: Article

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