Trends in extreme temperature indices in Austria based on a new homogenised dataset

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1538-1550

  Nemec, Johanna ^a   Gruber, Christine ^a   Chimani, Barbara ^a   Auer, Ingeborg ^a  

^a ZAMG Zentralanstalt fuer Meteorologie und Geodynamik   (Austria)

Author keywords

Climate change detection indices; Daily extreme temperature; Homogenisation; Inhomogeneity; Temperature trends

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE DETECTION; EXTREME TEMPERATURES; HOMOGENISATION; INHOMOGENEITIES; TEMPERATURE TRENDS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; HOMOGENIZATION METHOD; METADATA; SIGNAL DETECTION; TIME SERIES;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

BOOTSTRAPPING; CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA SET; ESTIMATION METHOD; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; TREND ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WARMING;

AUSTRIA;

EID: 84876341062     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.3532     Document Type: Article

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