caa a22 4500 469037695 CHVBK 20180323132800.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e19920201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF00154173 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF00154173 Radok Uwe University of Alaska, 99775-0800, Fairbanks, AK, U.S.A. aut Assessing climate persistence from climatic ‘noise' [Elektronische Daten] [Uwe Radok] Changes in climate are generally defined as differences between means. The autocorrelation usually encountered in geophysical series and the implied ‘persistence', or reduced number of independent observations, tend to render significance tests of mean differences inconclusive until a considerable amount of data has accumulated, by which time a climatic change could be well under way. A more efficient alternative approach is provided by small-sample variances. Under slightly idealized conditions their frequency distribution is of the chi-square type with a number of degrees of freedom that measures the persistence in the series and can be monitored on a short time scale with a sequential sampling procedure. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1992 Climatic Change Kluwer Academic Publishers 20/2(1992-02-01), 155-167 0165-0009 20:2<155 1992 20 10584 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00154173 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00154173 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Radok Uwe University of Alaska, 99775-0800, Fairbanks, AK, U.S.A aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Climatic Change Kluwer Academic Publishers 20/2(1992-02-01), 155-167 0165-0009 20:2<155 1992 20 10584 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer