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European Trend Atlas of Extreme Temperature and Precipitation Records

By Phil Jones , Deliang Chen , Alexander Walther , Anders Moberg , Jucundus Jacobeit , David Lister

Book information

Publisher
Springer
Year
2015
ISBN
9401793115, 9789401793117
DOI
10.1007/978-94-017-9312-4
LCC
2014953837
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
59 MB (61607866 bytes)
Pages
178\187
Orientation
yes
Paginated
yes
Scanned
portrait
Time added
2015-02-28 15:01:36
Atmospheric Sciences; Climatology; Natural Hazards

Description

This Atlas presents records of climatic variability and change in Europe starting before 1901 and focuses especially on trends of extreme temperatures and precipitation. The authors have used software developed within EMULATE (European and North Atlantic daily to MULtidecadal climATE variability) to obtain the extremes indices and temporal trends. The trend atlas provides an easy way to identify spatial patterns for a given time period, region, season, and index. The Atlas clearly shows that climate in Europe has changed over the last 100 to 150 years, such that the occurrence and intensity of warm temperature extremes have increased. Precipitation extremes have also changed, but with a less clear pattern compared to the temperature extremes.

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