Global Precipitations and Climate Change

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XI

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2. Precipitation Paleoclimatology

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Natural Variability of the Asian, Indian and African Monsoons over the Last 130 KA

      • Nicole Petit-Maire

      Pages 3-26

   3. Fluctuations of the Indian Monsoon Regime During the Last 170,000 Years: Evidence from Sea Surface Temperature, Salinity and Organic Carbon Records

      • Frauke Rostek, Götz Ruhland, Franck C. Bassinot, Luc Beaufort, Peter J. Müller, Edouard Bard

      Pages 27-51

   4. Accumulation at the Surface of Polar Ice Sheets: Observation and Modelling for Global Climate Change

      • Christophe Genthon, Jean Jouzel, Michel Déqué

      Pages 53-75

   5. Global Climate Changes and Humidity Variations Over East Europe and Asia by Historical Data

      • Andrei O. Selivanov

      Pages 77-104

   6. Regional Climate Change Scenario Based on Paleoclimatic Data

      • Marina Shabalova

      Pages 105-116

3. Recent Precipitation History and Existing Climatologies

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 117-117

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   2. Precipitation Changes Over the Northern Hemispheric Extratropics During the Last Hundred Years

      • Pavel Ya. Groisman, David R. Easterling

      Pages 119-133

   3. The Recent West African Rainfall Variability Through Empirical and Modelling Investigations

      • Serge Janicot

      Pages 135-149

   4. Extreme Precipitation in the Northern Hemisphere

      • Khamil Khairullin, Elena Kitaigorodskaya, Georges Shchukin

      Pages 151-160

   5. Possible Impacts of Climate Change Upon the Water Balance in Central Europe

      • M. Lapin

      Pages 161-170

4. Methodologies of Large Scale Estimation of Precipitation from Conventional Data

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 171-171

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   2. Terrestrial Precipitation Analysis: Operational Method and Required Density of Point Measurements

      • B. Rudolf, H. Hauschild, W. Rueth, U. Schneider

      Pages 173-186

   3. Cartography of Statistical Pluviometric Fields with an Automatic Allowance for Regional Topography

      • Patrick Bénichou

      Pages 187-199

   4. Approaches for Regionalization of Precipitation Climates in the Context of Global Climate Change Monitoring

      • Henry F. Diaz

      Pages 201-217

   5. Spatial and Temporal Inhomogeneity of Global Precipitation Data

      • Boris Sevruk

      Pages 219-230

   6. The Effect of Dimensions and Shape of Precipitation Gauges on the Wind-Induced Error

      • Boris Sevruk, Vladislav Nespor

      Pages 231-246

5. Methodologies of Global Scale Precipitation from Satellite Data

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 247-247

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   2. Use of Microwave Radiometry to Estimate Precipitation: Physical Basis and Intercomparison of Algorithms

      • Eberhard Ruprecht, Christian Thomas

      Pages 249-264

In regard to global change, emphasis is generally placed on the increase in global temperature, but large changes in the distribution of precipitation are also likely to occur. Such changes have been redorded in the past by paleoclimatological studies or in the field of climatology. Different approaches to monitoring and forecasting the evolution of climate-scale precipitation are reviewed by paleoclimatologists, hydrologists, satellite meteorologists, and climate modellers.

• Climate Change
• Climatology
• Klimatologie
• Meteorologie
• Niederschläge
• Paläoklimatologie
• Precipitation
• Scale
• global change
• globale Veränderung
• meteorology
• pleoclimatology
• satellite
• temperature
• ecotoxicology

• Laboratorie de Météorologie Dynamique, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France

  Michel Desbois, Françoise Désalmand

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