Trends in indices for extremes in daily temperature and precipitation in central and western Europe, 1901-99

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1149-1171

  Moberg, Anders ^a,b   Jones, Philip D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Climate extremes; Daily meteorological observations; Europe; Precipitation; Significance testing; Temperature; Trend estimation

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COOLING; METEOROLOGY; TEMPERATURE; WETTING;

DAILY TEMPERATURES; PRECIPITATION EXTREMES; SUMMERS; WINTERS;

PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

REGIONAL CLIMATE;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; WORLD;

EID: 23044468315     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.1163     Document Type: Article

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