Trends in annual precipitation across Europe between Jan 1960 and Jan 2012

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The figure shows trends in annual precipitation across Europe between Jan 1960 and Jan 2012. The trends are calculated using a median of pairwise slopes algorithm (Sen, 1968 ) (Lazante, 1996). Black dots represent high confidence in the sign of the long-term trend in the box (if the 5th to 95th percentile slopes are of the same sign). Boxes which have a thick outline contain at least three stations. Area averaged annual time series of percentage changes and trend lines are shown below each map for one area in northern Europe (Blue line, 5.6o to 16.9oE and 56.2o to 66.2oN) and one in south-western Europe (red line, 350.6o to 1.9oE and 36.2o to 43.7oN). Refer to (Met Office, 2012) for full explanation of methodology

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13 Jun 2012
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Annual precipitation per decade relative to 1961-1990 in mm

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geographical coverage: Europe

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Assessment of observed daily temperature and precipitation extremes Assessment of observed daily temperature and precipitation extremes Current interest in extreme weather events is motivated by the vulnerability of our society to the impacts of such events. The supposed increase in the occurence of extremes and the concern about anthropogenic climate change focuses attention on trends in extremes accompanying ‘global warming’. IPCC (2001) concludes that ‘most of the observed warming over the last 50 years is likely to have been due to the increase in greenhouse gas concentrations’. Yet, knowledge of changes in the occurrence of extremes is still limited.
E-OBS gridded dataset E-OBS gridded dataset  E-OBS gridded version of the ECA dataset (netCDF) with daily temperature, precipitation and pressure fields The ECA dataset contains series of daily observations at meteorological stations throughout Europe and the Mediterranean. Temperature data from E-OBS (KNMI) the ENSEMBLE FP6 project    

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