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A new method for detecting undocumented discontinuities in climatological time series
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The development of homogeneous climatological time series is a crucial step in examining climate fluctuations and change. We review and test methods that have been proposed previously for detecting inhomogeneities, and introduce a new method we have developed. This method is based on a combination of regression analysis and non‐parametric statistics. After evaluation against other techniques, using both simulated and observed data, our technique appears to have the best overall performance.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Easterling, D. R., & Peterson, T. C.
- Venue
- International Journal of Climatology
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 1995-04
- Volume
- 15
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 369-377
- ISSN
- 0899-8418 (ISSN-L)
- 1097-0088
- OpenAlex
- W1974080586
- Cited by
- 419
- References
- 13
- FWCI
- 11.11
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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