Cloudy Skies
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Standard Gaussian-type statistics are not really adequate to describe atmospheric variability; this traditional approach implicitly dismisses fluctuations as "noise" of use only in computing a standard deviation which, together with the mean, presumably varies so little in space and time that one can meaningfully speak of "climatological" values. In geophysics, unfortunately, this approach often fails. Means and standard deviations not only exhibit no "climatology," but depend on the scale of space/time sampling.
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تاریخ انتشار 2006