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Several climatic cycles in Andalusia (southern Spain) have been identified by using precipitation and temperature data from most of the twentieth and the early twenty-first centuries at 707 meteorological stations. Some of the cycles detected had been recognized in previous studies, such as the 3-year cycle and the 7/8-year cycle, which were the most common periodicities across the study area. Spectral analysis was used for statistical analysis. The power spectrum estimator used is the smoothed Lomb–Scargle periodogram. The results reveal very interesting spatial patterns that had not been seen before in previous climatic studies, which illustrate a combined and complex influence of the North Atlantic Oscillation and the Mediterranean Oscillation. In general, the precipitation record studied presents better results than the temperature record, which offers less clarity in assessing climatic variability in Andalusia. Nevertheless, most of the cycles identified in the precipitation record were detected in the temperature record as well.
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This work has been supported by research project CGL2015-71510-R from the Spanish Ministry for the Economy, Industry and Competitiveness.
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Sánchez-Morales, J., Pardo-Igúzquiza, E., Rodríguez-Tovar, F.J. (2019). Spatial Distribution of Climatic Cycles in Andalusia (Southern Spain). In: Valenzuela, O., Rojas, F., Pomares, H., Rojas, I. (eds) Theory and Applications of Time Series Analysis. ITISE 2018. Contributions to Statistics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26036-1_17
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