time series

noun

1. a set of observations, results, or other data obtained over a period of time, usually at regular intervals:

   Monthly sales figures, quarterly inventory data, and daily bank balances are all time series.

time series

noun

1. statistics a series of values of a variable taken in successive periods of time

Word History and Origins

Origin of time series¹

First recorded in 1890–95

Example Sentences

He digitally mapped bigcone patches in the footprint of the Zaca burn and created a time series of pre- and post fire images to date tree mortality.

From Los Angeles Times

"The long time series of glaciers improves our ability to make more accurate models of future ice changes, as the models are trained on historical observations," concludes Anders Bjørk.

From Science Daily

Céline Le Bohec, a senior author of the study from CNRS-France and Scientific Centre of Monaco, whose team collected this dataset, emphasizes the importance of long-term, systematic time series for understanding and predicting the impacts of global changes.

From Science Daily

"In the past, we had some sporadically available data, and with just those few observations it was hard to figure out what was happening. When we have a continuous time series and compare that with the tidal cycle, we see the seawater coming in at high tide and receding and sometimes going farther up underneath the glacier and getting trapped. Thanks to ICEYE, we're beginning to witness this tidal dynamic for the first time."

From Science Daily

"We also have this long land cover time series from Landsat, and we can look at how fires are changing the land plant cover and then tie it to changes in the solar-induced fluorescence signal. We find that wildfires are changing the land cover, which, in turn, can enhance the seasonality of carbon fluxes at large spatial scales."

From Science Daily