Rapport

Modeling and assessing climatic trends

Craigmile, Peter F.; Guttorp, Peter

Publikasjonsdetaljer

Utgivere: Norsk Regnesentral

Serie: NR-notat SAMBA/06/2017

År: 2017

Lenker:
FULLTEKST: pdfs.semanticscholar.org/b6f2/8af572b6f7973a29a929b824fe77c3d75b3b.pdf

Climate studies often fit linear trends to data. In many cases simplifying assumptions such
as independent errors and constant variance are used. We review a variety of approaches to
estimating linear trends, and illustrate with US temperature data how oversimplified assumptions
may lead to false significance. We outline a variety of methods to fit nonlinear trend
models. Using the Berkeley Earth global data set we show that a bent cable fit is better than
a linear fit for this series. We also review spatial and spatiotemporal trend models in mean,
variance and extremes, as well as models with long term memory structure.