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Space-Time Variability of the European Climate

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Observational datasets are analyzed in four steps to provide a comprehensive view of climate and climate variability in Europe. The first step towards an overall description of climate is the analysis of the spatial distributions of means and variances of basic climate elements (surface air temperature, sea level pressure, and precipitation). The second step identifies the chmate generating dynamical processes; here, cyclone paths and storm tracks provide climatologies from quantitative Lagrangian and Eulerian analyses of weather data; Grosswetterlagen and climate zones, on the other hand, represent climatologies based on qualitative patterns (regimes) embedding the chmate into its geographical and biospheric environment. A third step of analysis is necessary because these climatologies indicate recent climate changes at the end of the last century. This is documented in terms of the spatial distribution of time averaged climate elements and of various measures of their variability (see preceding steps). The fourth step evaluates the causes of the observed trends, analyzing the effects of external forcing (volcanism, solar, and anthropogenic) by empirical methods.

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Fraedrich, K., Schönwiese, CD. (2002). Space-Time Variability of the European Climate. In: The Science of Disasters. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-56257-0_3

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