Homogeneity of 20th century European daily temperature and precipitation series

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 679-692

  Wijngaard, J B ^a   Klein Tank, A M G ^a   Konnen G P ^a  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Daily dataset; Europe; Homogeneity; Precipitation; Temperature; Trend analysis

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); STATISTICAL METHODS;

SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURE;

CLIMATOLOGY;

AIR TEMPERATURE; HOMOGENEITY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); TREND ANALYSIS; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

EUROPE;

EID: 0038721180     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.906     Document Type: Article

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