bender writes:
Maybe Steve M wants to set up a thread on the paper? JEG provided this url:
Click to access 2007-LNA-TeA.pdf
moshpit, when I can’t compute exact solutions, I simulate it.
As for autocorrelation, given the sparseness of the data points in the time domain, maybe the autocorrelation is very weak? If autocorrelation is strong enough to violate assumption of independence, why not sub-sample (and iteratively resample) the data so that they are independent?
In general, resampling seems to be under-utilized in climate science
I’ll try to get to this within a couple of weeks.
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There was already some discussion about this paper here:
http://www.climateaudit.org/?p=1996
I just read the paper and it looks like an important step forward in terms of (a) quantifying uncertainty in proxy reconstructions, and more importantly (b) explicitly laying out the assumptions which are made in these proxy temperature records.
However, this is probably the most important paragraph:
In other words, these error estimates are only good when the proxies are linear and stationary. Has this ever been shown for the tree rings that they use in this paper?
is Li et. al available online?
This might simply be the result of my sloppy data-point grabbing (see below) However I took the residuals off Fig 1 and put them into Kurt Annen’s ARMA add-in for MSExcel. This selected p=5 q=4 on the basis of the Akaike Information Criterion. The significance of the terms seemed quite interesting:
The AR2 term p=0.20
The MA2 term p=0.03
with AR4 p=0.005 and MA4 0.10
I remember from a previous discussion on ‘spurious regression’ how the inclusion of an MA term altered the perspective and wondered if it might also be the case here. A ten period ‘forecast’ plot based on the the full ARMA is qualitatively very different from the one generated from an AR2 analysis.
-My grotty point-grabbing might be contributing to all this: my points have a trend (0.04 degrees in 100 years) and add up to 0.13
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