Summer temperature standard deviation, skewness and strong positive temperature anomalies in the present day climate and under global warming conditions

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 40, Issue 5-6, 2013, Pages 1387-1398

  Volodin, E M ^a   Yurova, A Yu ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF NUMERICAL MATHEMATICS   (Russian Federation)

^b HYDROMETEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH CENTER OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Extreme temperature; Global warming; Skewness

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; GLOBAL WARMING; NUMERICAL MODEL; SKEWNESS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SUMMER; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY;

EID: 84874305922     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-012-1447-4     Document Type: Article

References (21)

1. Barriopedro D, Fischer EM, Luterbacher J, Trigo RM, Garcia-Herrera R (2011) The hot summer of 2010: redrawing the temperature record map of Europe. Science 8: 220-224.
2. Brabson BB, Lister DH, Jones PD, Palutikof JP (2005) Soil moisture and predicted spells of extreme temperatures in Britain. J Geophys Res 110: D05104. doi: 10. 1029/2004JD005156.
3. Clark R, Brown S, Murphy J (2006) Modelling Northern Hemisphere summer heat extreme changes and their uncertainties using a physics ensemble of climate sensitivity experiments. J Clim 19: 4418-4435.
4. Fischer EM, Schär C (2009) Future changes in daily summer temperature variability: driving processes and role for temperature extremes. Clim Dyn 33: 917-935.
5. Fischer EM, Schär C (2010) Consistent geographical patterns of changes in high-impact European heatwaves. Nat Geosci 3: 398-403. doi: 10. 1038/ngeo866.
6. Fischer EM, Seneviratne SI, Luthi D, Schär C (2007) Contribution of land-atmosphere coupling to recent European summer heat waves. Geophys Res Lett 34. doi: 10. 1029/2006GL029068.
7. Kharin VV, Zwiers FW (2005) Estimating extremes in transient climate change simulations. J Clim 18: 1156-1173.
8. Kharin VV, Zwiers FW, Zhang X, Hergel GC (2007) Changes in temperature and precipitation extremes in the IPCC ensemble of global coupled model simulations. J Clim 20: 1419-1444.
9. Koster RD, Suarez MJ, Schubert SD (2006) Distinct hydrological signatures in observed historical temperature fields. J Hydrometeorol 7: 1061-1075.
10. Lenderink G, Ulden A, Hurk B, Meijgaard E (2007) Summertime interannual temperature variability in an ensemble of regional model simulations: analysis of the surface energy budget. Clim Chang 81: 233-247.
11. Meehl GA, Tebaldi C (2004) More intense, more frequent, and longer lasting heat waves in the 21th century. Science 305: 994-997.
12. Meehl GA, Stocker TF, Collins WD, Friedlingstein P, Gaye AT, Gregory JM, Kitoh A, Knutti R, Murphy JM, Noda A, Raber SCB, Watterson IG, Weaver AJ, Zhao ZCZ (2007) Global climate projections. In: Solomon S, Qin D, Manning M, Chen Z, Markuis M, Averyt KB, Tignor M, Miller HL (eds) Climate change 2007: the physical science basis. Contribution of working group I to the fourth assessment report of the intergovernmental panel on climate change. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
13. Mitchell TD, Jones PD (2005) An improved method of constructing a database of monthly climate observations and associated high-resolution grids. Int J Climatol 25: 693-712.
14. Razuvayev VN, Apasova EG, Martuganov RA, Steurer P, Vose R (1993) Daily temperature and precipitation data for 223 U. S. S. R. Stations. ORNL/CDIAC, Numerical data package-040. Oak Ridge National laboratory, Oak Ridge.
15. Schär C, Vidale L, Luthi D, Frei C, Haberli C, Liniger MA, Appenzeller C (2004) The role of increasing temperature variability in European summer heat waves. Nature 427: 332-336.
16. Seneviratne SI, Luthi D, Litschi M, Schär C (2006) Land-atmosphere coupling and climate change in Europe. Nature 433: 205-209. doi: 10. 1038/nature05095.
17. Stott PA, Stone DA, Allen MR (2004) Human contribution to the European heatwave of 2003. Nature 432: 610-614.
18. Tebaldi C, Haykoe K, Arblaster JM, Meehl JA (2006) Going to the extremes: an intercomparison of model-simulated historical and future changes in the extreme events. Clim Chang 79: 185-211.
19. Volodin EM, Lykossov VN (1998) Parameterization of heat and moisture transfer in the soil-vegetation system for use in atmospheric general circulation models. 1. Formulation and simulations based on local observational data. Izvestia RAS. Atmospheric Ocean Phys 34: 405-416.
20. Volodin EM, Dianskii NA, Gusev AV (2010) Simulation present day climate with the INMCM4. 0 coupled model of the atmospheric and oceanic general circulations. Izvestia RAS. Atmospheric Ocean Phys 46: 414-431.
21. Yonetani T, Gordon HB (2001) Simulated changes in frequency of extremes and regional features of seasonal/annual temperature and precipitation when atmospheric CO2 is doubled. J Clim 14: 1765-1779.