Trends in warm days and cold nights over the Iberian Peninsula: Relationships to large-scale variables

Climatic Change

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 667-684

  Rodríguez Puebla, Concepción ^a   Encinas, Ascensión H ^a   García Casado, Luis Alberto ^a   Nieto, Susana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE CONDITION; COMPOSITE MAPS; EMPIRICAL ORTHOGONAL FUNCTION; GEOPOTENTIAL HEIGHT; GLOBAL TRENDS; IBERIAN PENINSULA; LAND AREAS; MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NORTH ATLANTIC; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIABILITY; STATISTICAL MODELS; TELECONNECTION INDICES; TEMPERATURE EXTREMES;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; ORTHOGONAL FUNCTIONS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CORRELATION; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TELECONNECTION; TEMPERATURE PROFILE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); IBERIAN PENINSULA;

EID: 77953027271     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-009-9721-0     Document Type: Article

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