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The first indications that precipitation over land areas of northern extratropics (north of 35 TVj has been increasing were published in the late 1980s. In this study of annual precipitation and snowfall changes over Canada, Russia, and the USA all possible precautions and adjustments were made to remove the large-scale inhomogeneities from the analyzed data. Area-averaging by the Thiessen method and scale correction (Groisman et al., 1991a) were used to develop regional, unbiased century-scale annual precipitation time series for the contiguous United States, southern Canada, and the former Soviet Union, together with forty-year time series of snowfall and total precipitation over most of North America. Trends analyses confirm previous results about precipitation increase of northern extratropics and quantify them for North America.
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Groisman, P.Y., Easterling, D.R. (1994). Precipitation Changes Over the Northern Hemispheric Extratropics During the Last Hundred Years. In: Desbois, M., Désalmand, F. (eds) Global Precipitations and Climate Change. NATO ASI Series, vol 26. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-79268-7_6
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