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Temporal variations of the vertical profile of temperatures of Argentina
Author(s) -
Duarte Maria Luz
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
international journal of climatology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.58
H-Index - 166
eISSN - 1097-0088
pISSN - 0899-8418
DOI - 10.1002/joc.3370130407
Subject(s) - empirical orthogonal functions , climatology , troposphere , homogeneous , environmental science , latitude , atmospheric sciences , geology , mathematics , geodesy , combinatorics
Characteristics of the spatial and temporal variability of tropospheric and low stratospheric temperatures of Argentina during the period 1965–1982 are investigated. Empirical orthogonal functions (EOFs) were used to obtain the main characteristics of the vertical profile of temperature in three climatic regions, and time series of the temporal coefficients are analysed as indicators of temporal variations. The results indicate that there was an almost homogeneous upward trend in summer of the tropospheric temperatures (downward for stratospheric temperatures) in tropical and mid‐latitude regions.