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The main objective of this report is to analyse the variations and trends of the annual mean maximum and minimum temperatures during the 20th century in the Southern Plateau (Spain). To that end, the construction of the regional series was accomplished by applying the spatial aggregation method proposed by Jones et al. (1986), after which the study of the temperature time evolution was undertaken. The results obtained reveal that the maximum temperature shows a greater long-term trend than the minimum. Nevertheless, both variables significantly displayed a very similar increasing trend from the 70’s onwards.
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Galán, E., Cañada, R., Fernández, F., Cervera, B. (2001). Annual Temperature Evolution in the Southern Plateau of Spain from the Construction of Regional Climatic Time Series. In: India, M.B., Bonillo, D.L. (eds) Detecting and Modelling Regional Climate Change. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-04313-4_11
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