The persistence of the weather is a well-known phenomenon. If, for example, one day is sunny and warm, there is a high tendency that the next day remains similar. In this paper, we review recent results showing that the long-term persistence, characterized by the correlation C(s) of temperature...

We use the Detrended Fluctuation Analysis (DFA) to quantify underlying trends in long-term correlated records. Our approach is based on the fact that different orders of DFA are affected differently by trends. For a given instrumental record of length N, we compare the fluctuation exponent α0...