Articles | Volume 14, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-14-173-2023
https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-14-173-2023
Research article
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14 Feb 2023
Research article |  | 14 Feb 2023

Reliability of resilience estimation based on multi-instrument time series

Taylor Smith, Ruxandra-Maria Zotta, Chris A. Boulton, Timothy M. Lenton, Wouter Dorigo, and Niklas Boers

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Multi-instrument records with varying signal-to-noise ratios are becoming increasingly common as legacy sensors are upgraded, and data sets are modernized. Induced changes in higher-order statistics such as the autocorrelation and variance are not always well captured by cross-calibration schemes. Here we investigate using synthetic examples how strong resulting biases can be and how they can be avoided in order to make reliable statements about changes in the resilience of a system.
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