HAC robust trend comparisons among climate series with possible level shifts

Environmetrics - Tập 25 Số 7 - Trang 528-547 - 2014
Ross McKitrick1, Timothy J. Vogelsang2
1Department of Economics University of Guelph Guelph N1G 2W1 Canada
2Department of Economics Michigan State University Lansing MI U.S.A.

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Comparisons of trends across climatic data sets are complicated by the presence of serial correlation and possible step‐changes in the mean. We build on heteroskedasticity and autocorrelation robust methods, specifically the Vogelsang–Franses (VF) nonparametric testing approach, to allow for a step‐change in the mean (level shift) at a known or unknown date. The VF method provides a powerful multivariate trend estimator robust to unknown serial correlation up to but not including unit roots. We show that the critical values change when the level shift occurs at a known or unknown date. We derive an asymptotic approximation that can be used to simulate critical values, and we outline a simple bootstrap procedure that generates valid critical values and p‐values. Our application builds on the literature comparing simulated and observed trends in the tropical lower troposphere and mid‐troposphere since 1958. The method identifies a shift in observations around 1977, coinciding with the Pacific Climate Shift. Allowing for a level shift causes apparently significant observed trends to become statistically insignificant. Model overestimation of warming is significant whether or not we account for a level shift, although null rejections are much stronger when the level shift is included. © 2014 The Authors. Environmetrics published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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