Detecting and Modelling Regional Climate Change

Front Matter....Pages i-xxvi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Homogenisation of Climate Data, Difficult but Necessary....Pages 3-12
A Correction Model for Homogenisation of Long Instrumental Data Series....Pages 13-19
Selection of Data Sets by Quality and its Role in Climate Research....Pages 21-29
Results of Homogeneity Testing of Long Time Series of Temperature and Precipitation in Germany....Pages 31-42
The First Known Instrumental Meteorological Observations in Extremadura (Spain): Badajoz (1830)....Pages 43-52
Front Matter....Pages 53-53
Instrumental Temperature Change in the Context of the Last 1000 Years....Pages 55-68
Temperature Series of the Czech Republic and its Relation to Northern Hemisphere Temperatures in the Period 1961–1999....Pages 69-80
The Variations and Trends of the Surface Air Temperature in the Northeastern of Spain from Middle Nineteenth Century Onwards....Pages 81-93
A Differential Response of Northeastern Spain to Asymmetric Trends in Diurnal Warming Detected on a Global Scale....Pages 95-107
Climate Variability Analysis of Temperature Series in the Medium Ebro River Basin....Pages 109-118
Annual Temperature Evolution in the Southern Plateau of Spain from the Construction of Regional Climatic Time Series....Pages 119-131
Temperature Variations and Trends in the Segura River Basin. An Exploratory Analysis....Pages 133-142
The Temperature Component of the Common-Sense Index in Northwestern Iberian Peninsula....Pages 143-151
Changes in Temperature and Precipitation in the Norwegian Arctic during the 20th Century....Pages 153-161
Regionalisation of Precipitation in Castilla and Leon (Spain). Analysis of its Temporal behaviour....Pages 163-173
The Spatial and Temporal Structure of Rainfall Trends in the Valencia Region (Eastern of Spain) over the Second Half of the 20 th Century....Pages 175-189
Trend and Variability Analysis of Rainfall Series and their Extreme Events....Pages 191-201
Trends in Daily Precipitation Regimes and their Extremes at Three Observatories in the Iberian Peninsula....Pages 203-213
Seasonal Patterns of Air Surface Temperature and Pressure Change in Different Regions of Antarctica....Pages 215-228
Secular Variations of the Synoptic Circulation over the Iberian Peninsula....Pages 229-238
Front Matter....Pages 53-53
Atmospheric Pressure Trends between 1945 and 1994 in Castilla and León (Spain)....Pages 239-249
Temporal Change of some Statistical Characteristics of Daily Average Wind Speed in Hungary....Pages 251-262
Connection of Climate and Land Use in South-East Hungary....Pages 263-272
Front Matter....Pages 273-273
Natural and Anthropogenic Causes of Recent Climate Change....Pages 275-290
The Stationarity of Lead-Lag Teleconnections with East Africa Rainfall and its Incidence on Seasonal Predictability....Pages 291-307
Monte-Carlo SSA Analysis of the NAO Index....Pages 309-320
Variability of North-Atlantic-European Circulation Patterns Since 1780 and Corresponding Variations in Central European Climate....Pages 321-331
Large-Scale Mechanisms Influencing the Winter Romanian Climate Variability....Pages 333-343
North Atlantic Oscillation Projection on Romanian Climate Fluctuations in the Cold Season....Pages 345-356
Spatial Winter Precipitation Distribution over the Iberian Peninsula and Greece and its Relation to the Large Scale 500 hPa Circulation....Pages 357-367
Wintertime Iberian Peninsula Precipitation Variability and its Relation to North Atlantic Atmospheric Circulation....Pages 369-376
Relationships between Iberian Rainfall Variability and the North Atlantic Oscillation....Pages 377-387
Time-Frequency Variability of Spring Precipitation Associated with Teleconnection Indices over the Iberian Peninsula....Pages 389-396
Relationships between Dry and Wet Periods in Spring Precipitation over the Iberian Peninsula and Atmospheric Circulation....Pages 397-404
Baroclinic Activity and Interannual Variability of Winter Precipitation in the Northern Iberian Peninsula....Pages 405-416
First Order Markov Chain Model and Rainfall Sequences in several Stations of Spain....Pages 417-428
Spatial and Temporal Variability of the Surface Air Temperature over the Duero Basin (Iberian Peninsula)....Pages 429-438
Front Matter....Pages 439-439
Uncertainties in Assessing the Impacts of Regional Climate Change....Pages 441-469
Local Climate Scenarios for Norway Based on MPI’s ECHAM/OPYC3, a New DNMI Data Analysis, and the Common EOF Method....Pages 471-481
Evaluation and Analysis of the ECHAM4/OPYC3 GSDIO-Integration Temperature- and SLP-Fields over Norway and Svalbard....Pages 483-489
Front Matter....Pages 439-439
Downscaling of the Global Climate Change Projections: Some Approaches....Pages 491-499
Modelling Climate Changes for Croatia....Pages 501-514
Assessment of a Regional Climate for South America: A Dynamical Downscaling Approach....Pages 515-523
Assessment of a Regional Climate Change Scenario for Central Argentina: A Statistical Downscaling Approach....Pages 525-535
Climate Change Effect on the Reforestation Potential of Russia....Pages 537-544
Simulating Forest Responses to Transient Changes in Climate and Atmospheric CO 2 : A Case Study for Saskatchewan, Central Canada....Pages 545-554
Climate Change and Fire Weather Risk....Pages 555-565
Modelling Climate Change Impacts on Water Resources in the Swedish Regional Climate Modelling Programme....Pages 567-580
Irrigation Scenario vs Climate Change Scenario....Pages 581-592
The Impact of Climate Change on Transport Conditions in Finland....Pages 593-604
Adapting Building Construction to the Effects of Climate Change....Pages 605-616
Assessing the Impact of Climate Change on the Building Stock of a Region: Identifying an Appropriate Methodology....Pages 617-633
Land Cover Changes over North-Rhine-Westfalia (Germany) and their Impact on Regional Climate....Pages 635-645
Back Matter....Pages 647-651