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http://dx.doi.org/10.5351/KJAS.2007.20.1.001

Estimation for the Change of Daily Maxima Temperature  

Ko, Wang-Kyung (안양대학교 정보통계학과)
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The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics / v.20, no.1, 2007 , pp. 1-9 More about this Journal
Abstract
This investigation on the change of the daily maxima temperature in Seoul, Daegu, Chunchen, Youngchen was triggered by news items such as the earth is getting warmer and a recent news item that said that Korea is getting warmer due to this climatic change. A statistical analysis on the daily maxima for June over this period in Seoul revealed a positive trend of 1.1190 centigrade over the 45 years, a change of 0.0249 degrees annually. Due to the large variation on these maximum temperatures, one can raise the question on the significance of this increase. To check the goodness of fit of the proposed extreme value model, we shown a Q-Q plot of the observed quantiles against the simulated quantiles and a probability plot. And we calculated statistics each month and a tolerance limit. This is tested through simulating a large number of similar datasets from an Extreme Value distribution which described the observed data very well. Only 0.02% of the simulated datasets showed an increase of this degrees or larger, meaning that the probability is very low for such an event to occur.
Keywords
Daily maxima temperature; extreme value distribution; Q-Q plot; probability plot; tolerance limit;
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