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Extreme climatic events and their evolution under changing climatic conditions

Beniston, Martin ; Stephenson, David B.

In: Global and Planetary Change, 2004, vol. 44, p. 1-9

This short introductory paper illustrates some key issues concerning extremes by focusing on daily temperature extremes defined using quantiles and threshold exceedances. The examples include both a low- and a high-elevation site in the Swiss Alps where long records of homogenous daily data are readily available. The analysis of extremes highlights several features, some of them taken from...