Record occurrence and record values in daily and monthly temperatures

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 42, Issue 5-6, 2014, Pages 1275-1289

  Wergen, G ^a   Hense, A ^b   Krug, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Climate change; Extreme value statistics; Extreme weather; Record temperatures; Records; Stochastic processes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894331332     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-013-1693-0     Document Type: Article

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