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Demetris Koutsoyannis

Jan 5, 2006 – 8:50 AM

I mentioned a few days ago that a serious discussion had threatened to break out at realclimate, where Demetris Koutsoyannis had posted up some astute commentary. He has recently dropped in here as well. I was unfamiliar with his work prior to this recent introduction. He has written extensively on climate, much of which has […]

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Pelletier [2002] on Temperature Autocorrelation

Dec 19, 2005 – 1:01 PM

Benestad at realclimate here, against Cohn and Lins, argues that their use of time series methods more advanced than Benestad’s IID, somehow offended against the laws of physics, "pitching statistics against physics" – plus other gems. It has to be read to be believed. Now white noise (equivalent to Benestad’s IID, independent identically distributed residuals) […]

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Weather and Climatology: Mandelbrot's View

Oct 9, 2005 – 10:30 AM

Update: also see posts 382, 460, 462, 460. We often hear a distinction made between “climate” and “weather”. It may surprise people that the famous mathematician, Benoit Mandelbrot, thought about this problem with completely opposite conclusions to realclimate. Mandelbrot is a prolific author who invented and popularized the concept of fractals . His popular book, […]

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