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Improved Understanding of Past Climatic Variability from Early Daily European Instrumental Sources

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Improved Understanding of Past Climatic Variability from Early Daily European Instrumental Sources

  2. History and Correction of Long Temperature Series

  3. Trends in Extreme Temperatures

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About this book

Climate can be defined as an ensemble of many weather phenomena. Clima­ tologists often use the mean (conventionally the monthly and annual mean) of weather-related parameters to describe climate. The mean value, however, is not all the climate. Climatic changes might occur if certain aspects of the distribution of extreme values change, while the mean does not. Katz and Brown (1992), for example, show from a theoretical viewpoint that in a changing climate, extreme values are determined more by changes in variability than changes in the mean. Possible changes in extreme event frequency receive considerable attention along with the global warming, because extremes directly impact human society and the economy. For most societally sensitive extremes and related changes in their vari­ ability, an analysis based on daily data becomes necessary. This paper considers two aspects (relative and absolute values) of extreme temperatures on a daily basis. We do not consider spells of extreme days, periods which will likely have greater socio-economic and health impacts (Kalkstein et al., 1996; Wagner, 1999), than individual extreme days.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate, National Research Council, Padova, Italy

    Dario Camuffo

  • Climatic Research Unit, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK

    Phil Jones

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Improved Understanding of Past Climatic Variability from Early Daily European Instrumental Sources

  • Editors: Dario Camuffo, Phil Jones

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0371-1

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2002

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-0556-5Published: 31 May 2002

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-3908-6Published: 20 April 2014

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-010-0371-1Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VI, 392

  • Additional Information: Reprinted from CLIMATIC CHANGE, 53:1-2

  • Topics: Atmospheric Sciences, History, general

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