STARDEX Deliverable D9

Objective

To analyse trends in extreme daily precipitation and temperature across Europe in the 2nd half of the 20th century

Responsible author

Andras Bardossy, USTUTT-IWS

Outline

This deliverable utilises a dataset of nearly 500 European daily station series together with denser station networks for seven European regions, to analyse trends in extreme daily precipitation and temperature over the 2nd half of the 20th century. Ten indices of extremes are presented, calculated using the publicly-available STARDEX software. The use of a common set of indices and the large number of station series used, make this the most comprehensive and consistent study to date of European temperature and precipitation extremes.

Reports

• Synthesis Report
• ARPA-SMR: Northern Italy - temperature and precipitation
• AUTH: Greece - temperature, precipitation, thermal discomfort index, fire hazard index
• CNRS: French Alps - temperature, precipitation
• ETH: Swiss Alps - precipitation Figures
• FTS: Western/Central/Eastern Europe and Southern Alps winter storms and river flooding - causes and damages
• FTS: tables
• UEA: UK temperature and precipitation
• UEA: Europe temperature and precipitation Figures
• UNIBE: Switzerland temperature
• USTUTT-IWS: German part of Rhine Basin temperature and precipitation

Presentations

Slides from these presentations may be used provided that STARDEX is duly acknowledged.
• D9 summary Andras Bardossy, October 2003
• Global climate change impacts and extremes Clare Goodess, April 2004 Spanish version