Abstract: his paper looks at the analysis of U.K. monthly rainfall data from a long-term persistence viewpoint. Different modeling approaches are considered, taking into account the strong dependence and the seasonality in the data. ...

Abstract: The temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere from 1854 to 1999 have been analyzed in this article by means of a testing procedure that permits one to consider fractional degrees of integration. The tests are valid under ...

Abstract: This paper deals with the estimation of time trends in temperature anomaly series. However, instead of imposing that the estimated residuals from the time trends are covariance stationary processes with spectral density ...