Quantifying changes in climate variability and extremes: Pitfalls and their overcoming

Hot temperature extremes have increased substantially in frequency and magnitude over past decades. A widely used approach to quantify this phenomenon is standardizing temperature data relative to the local mean and variability of a reference period. Here we demonstrate that this conventional proced...

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Main Authors: Sippel, S, Zscheischler, J, Heimann, M, Otto, F, Peters, J, Mahecha, MD
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: American Geophysical Union 2015