Detecting and Modelling Regional Climate Change

ISBN-13: 9783540422396 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 651 str.

M. Brunet-India; D. Lopez; Manola Brunet India

Opis

Provides updated, theoretical and methodological information on regional climate change and environmental and socio-economic impacts on a regional scale. The findings presented in the field of long-term climate change improve our understanding of the global climate puzzle.

Recenzje

From the reviews:

"This book addresses the problems of detecting and modelling regional climate change. The book is composed of papers that were presented on the scientific meeting in Tarragona in May 2000. ... Individual papers are well written and illustrated. ... I can imagine that each of these outstanding and very knowledgeable scientists, active contributors to the IPCC process, gave an interesting lecture at the meeting." (Oleg A. Anisimov, WMO-Bulletin, Vol. 53 (2), 2004)

"This book contains 53 contributions selected from presentations at the international scientific meeting on the Detection and modelling of recent climate change ... . the contributions have been edited to provide an overview of the key features of regional climate modeling. ... This book provides a very detailed treatment of regional-scale modeling, with contributions from around the world ... . this book has a good index and a useful list of abbreviations. It is wide-ranging and will be useful to researchers in the field." (Frances Drake, The Holocene, Vol. 13 (2), 2003)

"The book starts with a nice introduction on the homogenization problem of long climatic records. ... the individual papers contained in the book are an important source of information if one is interested in a summary of recent work of a variety of groups doing climate variability analysis in Europe. Additionally some of the papers go beyond that offering comprehensive introductions and information to the respective topics." (A. Hense, Meteorologische Zeitschrift, Vol. 12 (1), 2003)

Spis treści

I: Quality Control and Homogenisation of Climate Time-series.- 1 Homogenisation of Climate Data, Difficult but Necessary.- 2 A Correction Model for Homogenisation of Long Instrumental Data Series.- 3 Selection of Data Sets by Quality and its Role in Climate Research.- 4 Results of Homogeneity Testing of Long Time Series of Temperature and Precipitation in Germany.- 5 The First Known Instrumental Meteorological Observations in Extremadura (Spain): Badajoz (1830).- II: Observed Regional Climate Variability and Change.- 6 Instrumental Temperature Change in the Context of the Last 1000 Years.- 7 Temperature Series of the Czech Republic and its Relation to Northern Hemisphere Temperatures in the Period 1961–1999.- 8 The Variations and Trends of the Surface Air Temperature in the Northeastern of Spain from Middle Nineteenth Century Onwards.- 9 A Differential Response of Northeastern Spain to Asymmetric Trends in Diurnal Warming Detected on a Global Scale.- 10 Climate Variability Analysis of Temperature Series in the Medium Ebro River Basin.- 11 Annual Temperature Evolution in the Southern Plateau of Spain from the Construction of Regional Climatic Time Series.- 12 Temperature Variations and Trends in the Segura River Basin. An Exploratory Analysis.- 13 The Temperature Component of the Common-Sense Index in Northwestern Iberian Peninsula.- 14 Changes in Temperature and Precipitation in the Norwegian Arctic during the 20th Century.- 15 Regionalization of Precipitation in Castilla and Leon (Spain). Analysis of its Temporal Behaviour.- 16 The Spatial and Temporal Structure of Rainfall Trends in the Valencia Region (Eastern of Spain) over the Second Half of the 20th Century.- 17 Trend and Variability Analysis of Rainfall Series and their Extreme Events.- 18 Trends in Daily Precipitation Regimes and their Extremes at Three Observatories in the Iberian Peninsula.- 19 Seasonal Patterns of Air Surface Temperature and Pressure Change in Different Regions of Antarctica.- 20 Secular Variations of the Synoptic Circulation over the Iberian Peninsula.- 21 Atmospheric Pressure Trends between 1945 and 1994 in Castilla and Leon (Spain).- 22 Temporal Change of some Statistical Characteristics of Daily Average Wind Speed in Hungary.- 23 Connection of Climate and Land Use in South-East Hungary.- III: Regional Climate Variability Patterns.- 24 Natural and Anthropogenic Causes of Recent Climate Change.- 25 The Stationarity of Lead-Lag Teleconnections with East Africa Rainfall and its Incidence on Seasonal Predictability.- 26 Monte-Carlo SSA Analysis of the NAO Index.- 27 Variability of North-Atlantic-European Circulation Patterns since 1780 and Corresponding Variations in Central European Climate.- 28 Large-scale Mechanisms Influencing the Winter Romanian Climate Variability.- 29 North Atlantic Oscillation Projection on Romanian Climate Fluctuations in the Cold Season.- 30 Spatial Winter Precipitation Distribution over the Iberian Peninsula and Greece and its Relation to the Large Scale 500 hPa Circulation.- 31 Wintertime Iberian Peninsula Precipitation Variability and its Relation to North Atlantic Atmospheric Circulation.- 32 Relationships between Iberian Rainfall Variability and the North Atlantic Oscillation.- 33 Time-Frequency Variability of Spring Precipitation Associated with Teleconnection Indices over the Iberian Peninsula.- 34 Relationships between Dry and Wet Periods in Spring Precipitation over the Iberian Peninsula and Atmospheric Circulation.- 35 Baroclinic Activity and Interannual Variability of Winter Precipitation in the Northern Iberian Peninsula.- 36 First Order Markov Chain Model and Rainfall Sequences in several Stations of Spain.- 37 Spatial and Temporal Variability of the Surface Air Temperature over the Duero Basin (Iberian Peninsula).- IV: Modelling and Assessing Regional Climate Change and Associated Impacts.- 38 Uncertainties in Assessing the Impacts of Regional Climate Change.- 39 Local Climate Scenarios for Norway Based on MPI’s ECHAM/OPYC3, a New DNMI Data Analysis, and the Common EOF Method.- 40 Evaluation and Analysis of the ECHAM4/OPYC3 GSDIO-Integration Temperature- and SLP-Fields over Norway and Svalbard.- 41 Downscaling of the Global climate Change Projections: Some Approaches.- 42 Modelling Climate Changes for Croatia.- 43 Assessment of a Regional Climate for South America: A Dynamical Downscaling Approach.- 44 Assessment of a Regional Climate Change Scenario for Central Argentina: A Statistical Downscaling Approach.- 45 Climate Change Effect on the Reforestation Potential of Russia.- 46 Simulating Forest Responses to Transient Changes in Climate and Atmospheric CO2: A Case Study for Saskatchewan, Central Canada.- 47 Climate Change and Fire Weather Risk.- 48 Modelling Climate Change Impacts on Water Resources in the Swedish Regional Climate Modelling Programme.- 49 Irrigation Scenario vs Climate Change Scenario.- 50 The Impact of Climate Change on Transport Conditions in Finland.- 51 Adapting Building Construction to the Effects of Climate Change.- 52 Assessing the Impact of Climate Change on the Building Stock of a Region: Identifying an Appropriate Methodology.- 53 Land Cover Changes over North-Rhine-Westfalia (Germany) and their Impact on Regional Climate.- Abbreviations.

Blurb

This unique book, the first of its kind, provides updated, integrated and organized, theoretical and methodological information on regional climate change and the associated environmental and socio-economic impacts on a regional scale. It presents the most recent findings in the field of long-term climate change, which improve our understanding of the global climate puzzle. Readers are introduced to state-of-the-art research in downscaling and GCMs. This involves the construction of reliable regional climate scenarios and the solution to key problems regarding the assessmanet of the impacts of climate change in the most important geographical areas in the world: from Arctic to Antarctic regions, with special emphasis on the Northern Hemisphere.