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The Use of Long Time Series Climatological Observations to Determine Climatic Trends
Author(s) -
HESSELL J. W. D.
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
new zealand geographer
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.335
H-Index - 25
eISSN - 1745-7939
pISSN - 0028-8144
DOI - 10.1111/j.1745-7939.1979.tb01902.x
Subject(s) - series (stratigraphy) , climatology , environmental science , meteorology , time series , physical geography , geography , geology , mathematics , statistics , paleontology
SUMMARY This case illustrates some of the difficulties which arise in the determination of climatic trends using long observation series composed of several components from diffrerent sites. Only in a very few cases can a long climatological series be regarded as being truly homogenous.