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Temperature and Precipitation Variability and Trends in Northern Spain
in the Context of the Iberian Peninsula Climate
M.1. Esteban-Parra, D. Pow-Vazquez, F.S. Rodrigo, Y. Castro-Dfez
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I Introduction
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2 Data
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3 Method
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4 Temperature Analysis
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4.1 EOF Patterns
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4.2 PCA Series
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4.3 Trends and Abrupt Changes
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4.4 Discussion of Temperature Results
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5 Precipitation Analysis
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5.3 Discussion of Precipitation Results
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Thermal Land-surface Variables From METEOSAT-IR Data
F. Gottsche, F.-S. Olesen
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1 Neural Network Versus Modtran
1.1 Principal Considerations
1.2 The Radiative Transfer Model Modtran-3
1.3 Feed-forward Neural Networks
1.4 Design and Training of Neural Networks
1.5 Training and Validation Data for Atmospheric Correction
1.6 Verification of the Trained Neural Network
2 Thermal Surface Parameters
2.1 The Data Basis
2.2 Modelling of Diurnal Temperature Cycles
2.3 Maximum and Median Composites
3 Conclusions and Outlook
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Variability of the Mediterranean Sea
Recent and Expected Future Changes in the Hydrography, Ecology,
and Circulation of the Eastern Mediterranean
w. Roether, B. Klein
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