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Abstract

For a statistician, climate is the distribution of weather and other variables that are part of the climate system. This distribution changes over time. This review considers some aspects of climate data, climate model assessment, and uncertainty estimation pertinent to climate issues, focusing mainly on temperatures. Some interesting methodological needs that arise from these issues are also considered.

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    A global climate model () and a regional model () using precipitation output with boundary conditions from the global model. The data are taken from the North American Regional Climate Change Assessment Program (NARCCAP) experiment. Movie created by Douglas Nychka and Stephan Sain of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR).

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