Comments on the Regional Climate Variability Driven by Foehn Winds in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica
The main objection to Speirs, McGowan, Steinhoff and Bromwich [Int. J. Climatol. 33: 945-958] work arises from the lack of analyses of the probability distribution functions of underlying processes leading to wind formation of which velocities are measured by automated weather stations and reported...
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ftdatacite:10.48550/arxiv.1308.4630 2023-05-15T13:38:11+02:00 Comments on the Regional Climate Variability Driven by Foehn Winds in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica Sienicki, Krzysztof 2013 https://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1308.4630 https://arxiv.org/abs/1308.4630 unknown arXiv arXiv.org perpetual, non-exclusive license http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/ Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics physics.ao-ph FOS Physical sciences Preprint Article article CreativeWork 2013 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1308.4630 2022-04-01T13:15:53Z The main objection to Speirs, McGowan, Steinhoff and Bromwich [Int. J. Climatol. 33: 945-958] work arises from the lack of analyses of the probability distribution functions of underlying processes leading to wind formation of which velocities are measured by automated weather stations and reported in the paper. Mathematically a rigorous definition of calculating the correlation coefficient (Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient) of averages does not exist. Therefore the authors numbers as given in Table II represent a set of randomly calculated figures. The authors suggestion in relation to a few of these random numbers that some of them have statistical significance at the 95% level is erroneous since no relationship exists between correlation coefficient of averages and statistical significance. Therefore Speirs et al. main conclusion that the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and the Southern Annular Mode significantly influence foehn wind frequency at McMurdo Dry Valleys is entirely unfounded. : 3 pages only, typos corrected Report Antarc* Antarctica McMurdo Dry Valleys DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) McMurdo Dry Valleys |
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The main objection to Speirs, McGowan, Steinhoff and Bromwich [Int. J. Climatol. 33: 945-958] work arises from the lack of analyses of the probability distribution functions of underlying processes leading to wind formation of which velocities are measured by automated weather stations and reported in the paper. Mathematically a rigorous definition of calculating the correlation coefficient (Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient) of averages does not exist. Therefore the authors numbers as given in Table II represent a set of randomly calculated figures. The authors suggestion in relation to a few of these random numbers that some of them have statistical significance at the 95% level is erroneous since no relationship exists between correlation coefficient of averages and statistical significance. Therefore Speirs et al. main conclusion that the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and the Southern Annular Mode significantly influence foehn wind frequency at McMurdo Dry Valleys is entirely unfounded. : 3 pages only, typos corrected |
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Comments on the Regional Climate Variability Driven by Foehn Winds in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica |
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