Tool for time series analysis and homogenization tutorial
General characteristics
- A comprehensive tool for processing monthly time series (from transformations through quality control and homogenization to time series analysis)
- Works under Windows 95/98/NT/ME/2000/XP
- User friendly: a lot of graphical components, graphs clarifying the results, etc.
- Especially useful for tutorial purposes, students can play with and compare individual methods
- Main development between 1995 and 2003
Brief technical description
- Input format: TXT files, monthly or daily data
- Working with one station at a time, but automated processing of many stations is enabled as well
- Working with series: plotting graphs, finding outliers, calculating statistical characteristics, various tests (the most commonly used during time series analysis)
- Working with two series: merging two series (using differences, ratios/log ratios)
- Menu is ordered in a sequence (steps) to be taken during data processing: viewing data, adjusting data (transformations), normal distribution testing, finding outliers/extremes, homogeneity testing (both absolute and relative homogeneity tests), times series analysis: trends, cyclicity, filtering output data
- Managing the software: by means of “Series Controller” (form in the right bottom corner: info about period, length of series, number of missing values, option for switching between monthly data or seasonal and annual averages/sums/extremes)
- Settings the software: in menu Options / Settings, documentation can be found under menu Help / Documentation
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