Abstract
This paper uses long memory and fractional integration techniques to analyze the presence of time trends in the water temperatures of three large European rivers (the Rhine at Lobith, the Danube at Wienna, the Meuse at Eijsden) and two lakes (Saimaa in Finland, and Võrtsjärv in Estonia). Long memory is a feature frequently observed in hydrological data, and it is important to consider it to appropriately estimate the potential trends in the data. The results indicate the existence of significant positive trends in all the five series examined, possibly as a consequence of global warming. Interestingly, once the time trends are taken into consideration, the degree of persistence substantially decreases in all cases and the long memory property in the data disappears.
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