Temperature trends in Switzerland and Europe: Implications for climate normals

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 565-580

  Scherrer, Simon C ^a   Appenzeller, Christof ^a   Liniger, Mark A ^a  

^a FEDERAL OFFICE OF METEOROLOGY AND CLIMATOLOGY METEOSWISS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Alps; Anomaly; Climate normal period; Climate variability; Europe; Mean; Probability; Standard deviation; Switzerland; Temperature

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL METHODS; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION;

CLIMATE NORMAL PERIOD; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; STANDARD DEVIATION; SWITZERLAND;

CLIMATOLOGY;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE VARIATION; PROBABILITY; REGIONAL CLIMATE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; TREND ANALYSIS;

ALPS; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN; SWITZERLAND; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 33646260699     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.1270     Document Type: Article

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