Joint Modeling of Precipitation and Temperature Using Copula Theory for Current and Future Prediction under Climate Change Scenarios in Arid Lands (Case Study, Kerman Province, Iran)

Table 2

Statistical characteristics of monthly temperature (1961–2005).

Month	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	June	July	Aug	Sept	Oct	Nov	Dec
Minimum	−3.12	1.51	8.16	13.31	18.23	23.15	23.57	21.94	17.9	11.67	5.5	1.2
Maximum	6.91	10.15	14.37	18	24.48	27.41	29.18	27.61	23.38	17.66	12.79	9.7
Mean	4.25	6.93	11.07	16.11	21.02	25.39	26.56	24.38	20.76	15.58	9.74	5.85
Standard deviation	1.93	1.71	1.47	1.48	1.24	1.04	1.43	1.41	1.54	1.47	1.52	1.77