U.S. daily temperatures: The meaning of extremes in the context of nonnormality

Journal of Climate

Volumn 27, Issue 19, 2014, Pages 7368-7384

  Huybers, Peter ^a   Mckinnon, K A ^a   Rhines, A ^a   Tingley, M ^a,b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Interannual variability; Intraseasonal variability; North America; Statistical techniques; Temperature; Time series

Indexed keywords

TIME SERIES;

DAILY TEMPERATURES; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; INTRASEASONAL VARIABILITY; NON-NORMALITY; NORTH AMERICA; STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES;

TEMPERATURE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ANNUAL VARIATION; BOOTSTRAPPING; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; EXTREME EVENT; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SEASONAL VARIATION; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; TIME SERIES; TREND ANALYSIS;

MIDWEST; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84907588557     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00216.1     Document Type: Article

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