Temperature and Precipitation Variability and Trends in Northern Spain
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Fig. 2. Loading factors associated with the first unrotated EOF for the annual and the
seasonal data
The same results are obtained for maximum and minimum temperatures.
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The left-hand sides of Figures 3, 4, and 5 show the annual and seasonal mean,
minimum and maximum series with the corresponding smoothed series, identifying
the longer-term variability.