Seasonally dependent changes of precipitation extremes over Germany since 1950 from a very dense observational network

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 113, Issue 6, 2008, Pages

  Zolina, Olga ^a,b   Simmer, Clemens ^a   Kapala, Alice ^a   Bachner, Susanne ^a   Gulev, Sergey ^b   Maechel, Hermann ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b SHIRSHOV INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^c DEUTSCHER WETTERDIENST   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); STATISTICAL METHODS; STATISTICAL TESTS;

ANNUAL CYCLE; EXTREME EVENT; MEASUREMENT METHOD; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; SEASONALITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TREND ANALYSIS;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY;

EID: 49249101290     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007JD008393     Document Type: Article

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