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Some Facts on Extreme Weather Events Analysis in Slovakia

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Bioclimatology and Natural Hazards

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The issue of climate change has been presented mostly as a change in long-term means, mainly in terms of air temperature and precipitation totals. In the IPCC (2001) report there was for the first time a discussion on a possible change in the shape of distribution curves of individual climatic phenomena, specifically the change in probability densities in the time series from different periods. The basic alternatives of shift of distribution curves are presented in Fig. 1.

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  1. Physics and Informatics, Comenius University, Mlynská dolina - F1, 842 15, Bratislava, Slovakia

    M. Lapin (Faculty of Mathematics), I. Damborská & M. Melo

  2. Slovak Hydrometeorological Institute, Bratislava, Slovakia

    P. Faško

  3. Slovak University of Technology, Bratislava, Slovakia

    L. Gaál (Faculty of Civil Engineering)

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  1. Technical University Zvolen, T.G. Masaryka 24, 960 53, Zvolen, Slovakia

    Katarína Střelcová (Faculty of Forestry), Jaroslav Škvarenina  & Ján Holécy (Faculty of Forestry),  & 

  2. Institute of Environmental and Earth Sciences, West Hungarian University, Ady Endre Str. 5, Sopron, 9400, Hungary

    Csaba Mátyás (Faculty of Forestry) (Faculty of Forestry)

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    Axel Kleidon

  4. Physics & Informatics, Comenius University in Bratislava, Mlynská dolina - F1, 842 48, Bratislava, Slovakia

    Milan Lapin (Faculty of Mathematics) (Faculty of Mathematics)

  5. Geophysical Institute, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Dúbravská cesta 9, 845 28, Bratislava, Slovakia

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  6. Institute of Forest Ecology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, SŠtúrova 2, 960 53, Zvolen, Slovakia

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Lapin, M., Damborská, I., Faško, P., Gaál, L., Melo, M. (2009). Some Facts on Extreme Weather Events Analysis in Slovakia. In: Střelcová, K., et al. Bioclimatology and Natural Hazards. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8876-6_4

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