Maximum and minimum temperatures in the United States: Time trends and persistence

Gil-Alana, L.A. (Luis A.)

Authors:

Gil-Alana, L.A. (Luis A.)

Keywords:

Fractional integration
Maximum and minimum temperatures
Temperatures
Time trends

Issue Date:

2018

Publisher:

Wiley Open Access

Project:

info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/MINECO/Retos Investigación: Proyectos de I+D+I (2014)/ECO2014-55236/ES/INTEGRACION FRACCIONAL, PRODUCTIVIDAD DE LAS EMPRESAS Y EVALUACION DE POLITICAS EN LOS PAISES EN VIAS DE DESARROLLO

ISSN:

1530-261X

Note:

This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Citation:

Gil-Alana, L.A. (Luis A.). "Maximum and minimum temperatures in the United States: Time trends and persistence". Atmospheric science letters. 19 (4), 2018, e810

Abstract

We investigate the time trends in the maximum and minimum temperatures in the United States from 1895 to 2017 using techniques that allow for fractional integration in the detrended series. In doing so we get more accurate estimates of the trends than those obtained using standard methods that impose either stationarity I(0) or nonstationarity I(1). Our results reveal evidence of significant positive trends in both maximum and minimum temperatures, while the difference between them show a significant negative trend as a consequence of the higher increase in the minimum temperatures. Evidence of stationary long memory behavior is also found in the three series examined.

URI:

https://hdl.handle.net/10171/65733

DOI:

10.1002/asl.810

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