Historical Daily Station Data

STAR meeting15-16 April 2004

Albert Klein TankKNMI, the Netherlands

IPCC-TAR, Ch.2, Folland and Karl

Easterling et al. (BAMS, 2000) in IPCC-TAR

Linear trends in rainy season, last ~50 years

“Amplified” response of very wet days

www.knmi.nl/samenw/eca (see also: Klein Tank and Können, J. Climate, 2003)

www.bom.gov.au/bmrc/csr/apn/ (see also: Della-Marta, Haylock et al. 2002)

Trends 1961-2001

Caribbean workshop, Jamaica 2001 (see also: Peterson et al., JGR, 2002)

Trends in 5-day rainfall total 1961-1990

Africa workshop, Casablanca 2001 (see also: Easterling et al., BAMS, 2003)

Frich et al. (Clim. Res., 2002) in IPCC-TAR

Temperature

Precipitation

Wijngaard, Klein Tank and Können, Int. J. of Climatol., 2003

Data quality control and homogeneity

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