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Assessing the performance of the BARCAST climate field reconstruction technique for a climate with long-range memory
Tine Nilsen
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, UiT – The Arctic University of Norway, 9037 Tromsø, Norway
Johannes P. Werner
Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, 5020 Bergen, Norway
Dmitry V. Divine
Norwegian Polar Institute, Fram Centre, 9296 Tromsø, Norway
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, UiT – The Arctic University of Norway, 9037 Tromsø, Norway
Martin Rypdal
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, UiT – The Arctic University of Norway, 9037 Tromsø, Norway
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Short summary
The BARCAST climate field reconstruction method is tested using synthetic data experiments. It is demonstrated that the output reconstructions have altered statistical properties compared with the input data, but they are also not necessarily consistent with the model assumption of the reconstruction method. The conclusion is that the statistical properties of a reconstruction not only reflect the statistics of the real climate, but they may very well be affected by the manipulation of the data.
The BARCAST climate field reconstruction method is tested using synthetic data experiments. It...
