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Trends in Time-Varying Percentiles of Daily Minimum and Maximum Air Temperature over North America

Entry ID: percentile_trends_na

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Summary

Abstract: The trends presented here used new daily air-temperature data sets to develop
the use of time varying percentiles that can estimate recent climatic change in
innovative ways. Recent climatic change can be manifested in frequency
distributions through a variety of changes to central tendency, variance, and
other shape measures. Therefore, a comprehensive procedure for the
simultaneous detection of trends in all portions of air temperature frequency
distributions was needed. See the paper below for more information:

http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2004/2003GL019019.shtml

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Geographic Coverage

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Spatial coordinates

N: 84.0

S: 25.0

E: -50.0

W: -170.0

Data Set Citation

Dataset Originator/Creator: Robeson, S. M.

Dataset Title: Trends in time-varying percentiles of daily minimum and maximum temperature over North America (from 1948 through 2000)

Dataset Release Date: 2004

Online Resource: http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2004/2003GL019019.shtml

Temporal Coverage

Start Date: 1948-01-01

Stop Date: 2000-12-31

Location Keywords

CONTINENT > NORTH AMERICA

Data Resolution

Temporal Resolution: Monthly

Science Keywords

ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > AIR TEMPERATURE

ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > MAXIMUM/MINIMUM TEMPERATURE

ISO Topic Category

CLIMATOLOGY/METEOROLOGY/ATMOSPHERE

Data Set Progress

COMPLETE

Originating Center

Data Center

Department of Geography, Indiana University

Data Center URL: http://www.indiana.edu/~geog/

Data Center Personnel
Name: SCOTT ROBESON Email: srobeson at indiana.edu Contact Address: Department of Geography, 120 Student Bldg, Indiana University City: Bloomington Province or State: Indiana Postal Code: 47405 Country: USA

Personnel

SCOTT ROBESON

Role: DIF AUTHOR

Role: TECHNICAL CONTACT

Role: INVESTIGATOR

Email: srobeson at indiana.edu

Contact Address:

Department of Geography, 120 Student Bldg, Indiana University

City: Bloomington

Province or State: Indiana

Postal Code: 47405

Country: USA

Publications/References

Robeson, S. M. (2004) "Trends in time-varying percentiles of daily minimum and
maximum temperature over North America," Geophysical Research Letters, 31,
L04203, doi:10.1029/2003GL019019.
http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2004/2003GL019019.shtml

Creation and Review Dates

DIF Creation Date: 2004-10-20

Last DIF Revision Date: 2006-08-29

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