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Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (pp. 847–940). Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press.
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precipitation in Poland in the period 1951–2000 and their relationship to atmospheric circulation. International Journal on Climatology, 24, 291–310.
Della-Marta, P. M., & Wanner, H. (2006). A method for homogenising the extremes and mean of
daily temperature measurements. Journal of Climate, 19, 4179–4197.
De ´que ´, M., Rowell, D. P., Lu ¨thi, D., Giorgi, F., Christensen, J. H., Rockel, B., Jacob, D.,
Kjellstro ¨m, E., de Castro, M., & van den Hurk, B. (2007). An intercomparison of regional
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chronologies for reconstructing past temperature variability. Science, 295, 2250–2253.
doi:10.1126/science.1066208.
Fischer, E. M., & Scha ¨r, C. (2009). Future changes in daily summer temperature variability:
Driving processes and role for temperature extremes. Climate Dynamics, 33, 917–935.
doi:10.1007/s00382-008-0473-8.
Fischer, E. M., Seneviratne, S. I., Vidale, P. L., Lu ¨thi, D., & Scha ¨r, C. (2007). Soil moisture –
Atmosphere interactions during the 2003 European summer heat wave. Journal of Climate, 20,
5081–5099.
Giorgi, F., Bi, X., & Pal, J. (2004). Mean, interannual variability and trends in a regional climate
change experiment over Europe. II: Climate change scenarios (2071–2100). Climate Dynamics, 23, 839–858. doi:10.1007/s00382-004-0467-0.
Hawkins, E., & Sutton, R. (2009). The potential to narrow uncertainty in regional climate predictions. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 90, 1095–1107.
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Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 881 pp.
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M. Marquis, K. B. Averyt, M. Tignor, & H. L. Miller (Eds.), Climate change 2007: The
physical science basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of
the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press.
Jones, P. D., New, M., Parker, D. E., Martin, S., & Rigor, I. G. (1999). Surface air temperature
and its changes over the past 150 years. Reviews of Geophysics, 37, 173–199.
doi:10.1029/1999RG900002.
Jones, P. D., Osborn, T. J., & Briffa, K. R. (2001). The evolution of climate over the last
millennium. Science, 292, 662–667. doi:10.1126/science.1059126.
Kjellstro ¨m, E., Ba ¨rring, L., Jacob, D., Jones, R., Lenderink, G., & Scha ¨r, C. (2007). Modelling
daily temperature extremes: Recent climate and future changes over Europe. Climatic Change,
81, 249–265. doi:10.1007/s10584-006-9220-5.
Lakatos, M., Szentimrey, T., & Bihari, Z. (2011). Application of gridded daily data series for
calculation of extreme temperature and precipitation indices in Hungary. Ido¨ja ` ra ` s, 115,
99–109.
Luterbacher, J., Dietrich, D., Xoplaki, E., Grosjean, M., & Wanner, H. (2004). European seasonal
and annual temperature variability, trends, and extremes since 1500. Science, 30, 1499–1503.
doi:10.1126/science.1093877.
Mestre, O., Prieur, C., Gruber, C., Caussinus, H., & Jourdain, S. (2009). A method for homogenization of daily temperature observations. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology,
50, 2343–2358.
2 Climate Change in Central and Eastern Europe
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