European Trend Atlas of Extreme Temperature and Precipitation Records

by David Lister, Deliang Chen, Anders Moberg, Phil Jones, Alexander Walther, Jucundus Jacobeit

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This Atlas presents records of climatic variability and change in Europe starting before 1901 and focuses especially on trends of extreme temperatures and precipitation. The authors have used software developed within EMULATE (European and North Atlantic daily to MULtidecadal climATE variability) to obtain the extremes indices and temporal trends. The trend atlas provides an easy way to identify spatial patterns for a given time period, region, season, and index. The Atlas clearly shows that climate in Europe has changed over the last 100 to 150 years, such that the occurrence and intensity of warm temperature extremes have increased. Precipitation extremes have also changed, but with a less clear pattern compared to the temperature extremes.

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How does the historical scope of this atlas—spanning over a century of data prior to 1901—shift your perspective on modern discussions surrounding climate change?
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The book highlights a stark contrast in clarity between temperature extremes and precipitation extremes; why do you think temperature trends are easier to map definitively than precipitation patterns?
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Consider the visual and spatial nature of an atlas: how does viewing climate data through maps and regional trends change our emotional or intellectual connection to the data compared to reading raw numerical statistics?

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