Climate Variability and Extremes during the Past 100 Years

Large progress has been made in the past few years towards quantifying and understanding climate variability during past centuries. At the same time, present-day climate has been studied using state-of-the-art data sets and tools with respect to the physi

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ADVANCES IN GLOBAL CHANGE RESEARCH VOLUME 33

Editor-in-Chief Martin Beniston, University of Geneva, Switzerland

Editorial Advisory Board B. Allen-Diaz, Department ESPM-Ecosystem Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A. R.S. Bradley, Department of Geosciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, U.S.A. W. Cramer, Department of Global Change and Natural Systems, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam, Germany. H.F. Diaz, Climate Diagnostics Center, Oceanic and Atmospheric Research, NOAA, Boulder, CO, U.S.A. S. Erkman, Institute for communication and Analysis of Science and Technology–ICAST, Geneva, Switzerland R. Garcia Herrera, Faculated de Fisicas, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain M. Lal, Center for Atmospheric Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India. U. Luterbacher, The Graduate Institute of International Studies, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland. I. Noble, CRC for Greenhouse Accounting and Research School of Biological Science, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. L. Tessier, Institut Mediterranéen d’Ecologie et Paléoécologie, Marseille, France. F. Toth, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis Laxenburg, Austria. M.M. Verstraete, Institute for Environment and Sustainability, Ec Joint Research Centre, Ispra (VA), Italy.

The titles published in this series are listed at the end of this volume.

Climate Variability and Extremes during the Past 100 Years Stefan Brönnimann • Jürg Luterbacher Tracy Ewen • Henry F. Diaz Richard S. Stolarski • Urs Neu Editors

Max und Elsa Beer-Brawand-Fonds

Stefan Brönnimann Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science ETH Zürich, Switzerland

Jürg Luterbacher NCCR Climate and Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research and Institute of Geography University of Bern, Switzerland

Tracy Ewen Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science ETH Zürich, Switzerland

Henry F. Diaz NOAA-ESRL, Boulder CO USA

Richard S. Stolarski NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt MD, USA

Urs Neu ProClim, Bern Switzerland

Cover: Deadvlei pan in the Namib Desert, Namibia (Photo: Tracy Ewen), flooding in Bern, Switzerland, 15 May 1999 (Photo: Stefan Brönnimann), satellite image of sea ice cover in the Barents and Kara sea region, 12 June 2001 (Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA Visible Earth v1 ID 8126).

ISBN 978-1-4020-6765-5

e-ISBN 978-1-4020-6766-2

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Preface

Large progress has been made in the past few years towards