A wavelet-based analysis of surface air temperature regularity

The aim of the talk is to present the "wavelet transform microscope" and the wavelet leaders method to show that surface air temperature signals of weather stations selected in Europe are monofractal, i.e. all the points have the same Hölder (regularity) exponent. This study reveals that the information obtained in this way are richer than previous works studying long range correlations in meteorological stations. The approach presented here allows to bind the Hölder exponents with the pressure anomalies, and such a link does not exist with methods previously carried out. Moreover, this regularity is a signature of the type of climate the stations
are associated to: indeed, it is possible to establish a climate classification of weather stations in Europe which matches the Köppen-Geiger climate classification. A blind test is performed in order to confirm the results, which can be partly explained by the influence of the North Atlantic Oscillation. This result could give rise to new criteria to determine the efficiency of current climatic models.