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Rhines, Andrew Nelson.

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Past and Future Climate Variability: Extremes, Scaling, and Dynamics.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Past and Future Climate Variability: Extremes, Scaling, and Dynamics./
Author:	Rhines, Andrew Nelson.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2015,
Description:	187 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 77-04(E), Section: B.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International77-04B(E).
Subject:	Atmospheric sciences. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3739048
ISBN:	9781339295855

Past and Future Climate Variability: Extremes, Scaling, and Dynamics.
Rhines, Andrew Nelson.

Past and Future Climate Variability: Extremes, Scaling, and Dynamics. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2015 - 187 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 77-04(E), Section: B.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Harvard University, 2015.

This item is not available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses.

Severe impacts result from extreme events such as heat waves, droughts, cold spells, and floods. Characterizing and predicting variations in climate that give rise to these phenomena is important for mitigating their effects on human and natural systems. This thesis investigates whether climate variability is measurably changing and describes the observational basis for recent shifts in the temperature distribution. New methodology is presented that robustly estimates local distributional changes and permits for mapping them to regional or global scales, overcoming limitations of previous analyses. Contrary to the widespread view that climate variability has increased in recent decades, these analyses show that temperature variability has generally declined --- albeit with important regional differences.

ISBN: 9781339295855Subjects--Topical Terms:

3168354
Atmospheric sciences.

Past and Future Climate Variability: Extremes, Scaling, and Dynamics.
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520 $a Historical observations of temperature are crucial for long-term monitoring of Earth's climate. However, hundreds of millions of daily observations contain precision-related biases that prevent their use in distributional analyses. A new machine-learning algorithm automatically corrects for these biases, enabling their use in long-term climate studies. The algorithm increases the number of usable observations by an order of magnitude and has many applications in quality control and signal classification. As the observations sample Earth's climate sparsely in space and time, sophisticated statistical methods are used to map local signals to estimates of the full spatial field and its uncertainties. Much of the observed contraction of variability is shown to stem from decreased meridional temperature gradients due to amplified arctic warming in the northern hemisphere.
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