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    • Limits to the quantification of local climate change 

      Chapman, Sandra; Stainforth, David A.; Watkins, Nicholas W. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2015-09-16)
      Abstract Wedemonstrate how the fundamental timescales of anthropogenic climate change limit the identification of societally relevant aspects of changes in precipitation.Weshow that it is nevertheless possible to extract, solely from observations, some confident quantified assessments of change at certain thresholds and locations. Maps of such changes, for a variety of hydrologically-relevant, ...

    • Mapping climate change in European temperature distributions 

      Stainforth, David A.; Chapman, Sandra; Watkins, Nicholas W. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2013)
      Climate change poses challenges for decision makers across society, not just in preparing for the climate of the future but even when planning for the climate of the present day. When making climate sensitive decisions, policy makers and adaptation planners would benefit from information on local scales and for user-specific quantiles (e.g. the hottest/coldest 5% of days) and thresholds (e.g. ...