Review Article

Climate Warming: Is There Evidence in Africa?

Table 5

Estimates of in the deseasonalized monthly data using a long memory model with AR(1) disturbances.

No regressorsAn interceptA linear time trend

(a) South Africa
DURBAN0.252 (0.175, 0.351)0.252 (0.175, 0.352)0.237 (0.156, 0.343)
PRETORIA0.195 (0.095, 0.319)0.196 (0.095, 0.324)0.201 (0.097, 0.347)
CAPE TOWN0.208 (0.136, 0.299)0.208 (0.136, 0.299)0.207 (0.134, 0.299)

(b) Côte d’Ivoire
BONDOUKOU0.383 (0.301, 0.486)0.377 (0.295, 0.474)0.361 (0.266, 0.473)
GAGNOA0.254 (0.173, 0.356)0.255 (0.174, 0.365)0.181 (00612, 0.333)
ABIDJAN0.259 (0.171, 0.370)0.259 (0.171, 0.370)0.259 (0.171, 0.370)

(c) Kenya
KISUMU0.263 (0.143, 0.414)0.268 (0.142, 0.436)0.217 (0.011, 0.447)
MOMBASA0.356 (0.298, 0.423)0.356 (0.298, 0.423)0.352 (0.292, 0.421)
NAIROBI 0.144 (0.084, 0.220)0.145 (0.081, 0.221)0.019 (0.107, 0.086)

InterceptTime trendSeasonal AR

KISUMU−0.12903 (−1.949)0.00077 (1.932)0.184
MOMBASA−0.26021 (−1.915)0.00165 (1.955)0.623
NAIROBI−0.46857 (−9.171)0.00198 (10.468)0.530

In bold: the significant estimates according to the deterministic terms. In parenthesis: the 95% confidence bands of the estimates of .