And this is what I had in mind from previous discussions: a fairly
large spatial correlation, like the 800-1200 km that can be found in the Hansen 1987 paper.
Not exact matches
«When we compared the
spatial correlation using datasets that include only magnitude 3 - plus earthquakes, there was no change,» said Pollyea, adding that a
larger reduction in wastewater injection volumes is needed to reduce the dangers of
large magnitude earthquakes.
Fritz and her team are the first to confirm this
correlation on such a
large spatial and temporal scale — for North America as well as for Europe.
Arthur Smith argues that the
spatial correlation of ENSO is evidence against chaos, because chaotic systems can not (in Arthur's eyes) produce structures which correlate across
large scales.
Even with the generally
large spatial coherence and
correlation length scales of temperature anomalies at polar latitudes (e.g. Hansen et al. 1999; Chapman and Walsh 2007), none of the reconstruction methods can escape the basic limitation of few in situ observations in West Antarctica, and all exhibit less skill in this region compared with other regions of the continent.
The simulated annular patterns exhibit a high
spatial correlation with the observed patterns during the late 20th century, though the mode represents too
large a percentage of total temporal variability within each hemisphere.
Even apart from the cherry picking issue, it is likely that these error bands do not take the
spatial correlations into account, which, with the much
larger number of proxies, are more severe than in Loehle and McC.