cross correlation
From Glossary of Meteorology
The correlation between time series x(t) and y(t), where x and y may represent the same variable measured at different locations, or a single variable measured at one location but at different times, as for the case in which y(t) represents x(t + L), where L is a specified time lag.
In such cases, the two variables are usually not statistically independent, and large cross correlations between x and y can result.
See autocorrelation.
