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Regional climatological effects of global warming may be recognized not only in shifts of mean temperature and precipitation but also in the frequency and intensity changes of different climate extremes. A joint WMO-CCl (World Meteorological Organization Commission for Climatology)/CLIVAR (a project of the World Climate Research Programme addressing Climate Variability and Predictability) working group formed in 1998 on climate change detection (Karl et al. 1999); one of its task groups aimed to identify climate extreme indices (Peterson et al. 2002) and completed a climate extreme analysis on all parts of the world where appropriate data were available (Frich et al. 2002).
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Pongrácz, R., Bartholy, J., Gelybó, G., Szabó, P. (2009). Detected and Expected Trends of Extreme Climate Indices for the Carpathian Basin. In: Střelcová, K., et al. Bioclimatology and Natural Hazards. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8876-6_2
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