Correction to “Sensitivity of distributions of climate system properties to the surface temperature data set”

A. G. Libardoni and C. E. Forest

Geophysical Research Letters (28 May 2013)

DOI: 10.1002/grl.50480

In the paper “Sensitivity of distributions of climate system properties to the surface temperature data set” by A. G. Libardoni and C. E. Forest (Geophys. Res. Lett., 38, L22705, doi:10.1029/2011GL049431), two errors were made. First, there was an offset of 1 month when comparing model data to observational data. Second, the likelihood function that was used to relate model goodness-of-fit statistics to a probability distribution, while derived from basic understanding of probability distributions, is not acceptable as a likelihood function to statisticians.

keywords: climate; sensitivity; probability; distributions; 1620 Climate dynamics; 1694 Instruments and techniques; 1622 Earth system modeling; 1616 Climate variability

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