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Reversible Record Breaking And Variability: Temperature Distributions Across The Globe, Amalia Anderson, Alexander Kostinski
Reversible Record Breaking And Variability: Temperature Distributions Across The Globe, Amalia Anderson, Alexander Kostinski
Department of Physics Publications
Based on counts of record highs and lows, and employing reversibility in time, an approach to examining natural variability is proposed. The focus is on intrinsic variability; that is, variance separated from the trend in the mean. A variability index α is suggested and studied for an ensemble of monthly temperature time series around the globe. Deviation of 〈α〉 (mean α) from zero, for an ensemble of time series, signifies a variance trend in a distribution-independent manner. For 15 635 monthly temperature time series from different geographical locations (Global Historical Climatology Network), each time series about a …