Detecting and Modelling Regional Climate Change

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxvi

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2. Quality Control and Homogenisation of Climate Time-Series

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Homogenisation of Climate Data, Difficult but Necessary

      • Hans Alexandersson

      Pages 3-12

   3. A Correction Model for Homogenisation of Long Instrumental Data Series

      • Olivier Mestre, Henri Caussinus

      Pages 13-19

   4. Selection of Data Sets by Quality and its Role in Climate Research

      • Predrag Petrovic

      Pages 21-29

   5. Results of Homogeneity Testing of Long Time Series of Temperature and Precipitation in Germany

      • G. Müller-Westermeier

      Pages 31-42

   6. The First Known Instrumental Meteorological Observations in Extremadura (Spain): Badajoz (1830)

      • J. M. Vaquero, M. C. Gallego, J. A. García

      Pages 43-52

3. Observed Regional Climate Variability and Change

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 53-53

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   2. Instrumental Temperature Change in the Context of the Last 1000 Years

      • Philip D. Jones

      Pages 55-68

   3. Temperature Series of the Czech Republic and its Relation to Northern Hemisphere Temperatures in the Period 1961–1999

      • R. Brázdil, P. Štěpánek, V. Květoň

      Pages 69-80

   4. The Variations and Trends of the Surface Air Temperature in the Northeastern of Spain from Middle Nineteenth Century Onwards

      • M. Brunet, E. Aguilar, O. Saladie, J. Sigró, D. López

      Pages 81-93

   5. A Differential Response of Northeastern Spain to Asymmetric Trends in Diurnal Warming Detected on a Global Scale

      • M. Brunet, E. Aguilar, O. Saladie, J. Sigro, D. Lopez

      Pages 95-107

   6. Climate Variability Analysis of Temperature Series in the Medium Ebro River Basin

      • J. Abaurrea, J. Asín, O. Erdozain, E. Fernández

      Pages 109-118

   7. Annual Temperature Evolution in the Southern Plateau of Spain from the Construction of Regional Climatic Time Series

      • E. Galán, R. Cañada, F. Fernández, B. Cervera

      Pages 119-131

   8. Temperature Variations and Trends in the Segura River Basin. An Exploratory Analysis

      • R. Horcas, D. Rasilla, F. Fernández-García

      Pages 133-142

   9. The Temperature Component of the Common-Sense Index in Northwestern Iberian Peninsula

      • Luis Gimeno, Juan Antonio Añel, Higinio González, Pedro Ribera, Ricardo García, Emiliano Hernández

      Pages 143-151

   10. Changes in Temperature and Precipitation in the Norwegian Arctic during the 20th Century

       • E. J. Førland, I. Hanssen-Bauer

       Pages 153-161

   11. Regionalisation of Precipitation in Castilla and Leon (Spain). Analysis of its Temporal behaviour

       • Jose Luis Labajo, Antonio Piorno

       Pages 163-173

   12. The Spatial and Temporal Structure of Rainfall Trends in the Valencia Region (Eastern of Spain) over the Second Half of the 20th Century

       • J. Carlos González Hidalgo, Martín de Luís Arrillaga, Josep Raventós Bonvehí

       Pages 175-189

   13. Trend and Variability Analysis of Rainfall Series and their Extreme Events

       • J. Abaurrea, A. C. Cebrián

       Pages 191-201

For the very first time, this book provides updated, integrated and organized, theoretical and methodological information on regional climate change and the associated environmental and socio-economic impacts on a regional scale. The most recent findings in the field of long-term climate change, which improve our understanding of the global climate puzzle, will be presented. Readers are introduced to state-of-the-art research in downscaling and GCMs, which involve the construction of reliable regional climate scenarios and the solution to key problems regarding the assessment of the impacts of climate change in the most important geographical areas of the world, from the Arctic to Antarctic regions, with special emphasis on the Northern Hemisphere.

• Climatology
• Environmental Sciences
• Geografie
• Geography
• Geophysics
• Geophysik
• Klima
• Klimatologie
• Meteorology
• Meterologie
• Scale
• Umweltwissenschaften
• climate change
• air pollution and air quality

From the reviews:

"This book addresses the problems of detecting and modelling regional climate change. The book is composed of papers that were presented on the scientific meeting in Tarragona in May 2000. … Individual papers are well written and illustrated. … I can imagine that each of these outstanding and very knowledgeable scientists, active contributors to the IPCC process, gave an interesting lecture at the meeting." (Oleg A. Anisimov, WMO-Bulletin, Vol. 53 (2), 2004)

"This book contains 53 contributions selected from presentations at the international scientific meeting on the Detection and modelling of recent climate change … . the contributions have been edited to provide an overview of the key features of regional climate modeling. … This book provides a very detailed treatment of regional-scale modeling, with contributions from around the world … . this book has a good index and a useful list of abbreviations. It is wide-ranging and will be useful to researchers in the field." (Frances Drake, The Holocene, Vol. 13 (2), 2003)

"The book starts with a nice introduction on the homogenization problem of long climatic records. … the individual papers contained in the book are an important source of information if one is interested in a summary of recent work of a variety of groups doing climate variability analysis in Europe. Additionally some of the papers go beyond that offering comprehensive introductions and information to the respective topics." (A. Hense, Meteorologische Zeitschrift, Vol. 12 (1), 2003)

• Department of History & Geography, Climate Change Research Group, Physical Geography, University Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain

  Manola Brunet India, Diego López Bonillo

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