Detecting and Modelling Regional Climate Change [Hardcover]

For the very first time, this book provides updated, integrated and organized, theoretical and methodological information on regional climate change and the associated environmental and socio-economic impacts on a regional scale. The most recent findings in the field of long-term climate change, which improve our understanding of the global climate puzzle, will be presented. Readers are introduced to state-of-the-art research in downscaling and GCMs, which involve the construction of reliable regional climate scenarios and the solution to key problems regarding the assessment of the impacts of climate change in the most important geographical areas of the world, from the Arctic to Antarctic regions, with special emphasis on the Northern Hemisphere.For the very first time, this book provides updated, integrated and organized, theoretical and methodological information on regional climate change and the associated environmental and socio-economic impacts on a regional scale. The most recent findings in the field of long-term climate change, which improve our understanding of the global climate puzzle, will be presented. Readers are introduced to state-of-the-art research in downscaling and GCMs, which involve the construction of reliable regional climate scenarios and the solution to key problems regarding the assessment of the impacts of climate change in the most important geographical areas of the world, from the Arctic to Antarctic regions, with special emphasis on the Northern Hemisphere.I: Quality Control and Homogenisation of Climate Time-series.- 1 Homogenisation of Climate Data, Difficult but Necessary.- 2 A Correction Model for Homogenisation of Long Instrumental Data Series.- 3 Selection of Data Sets by Quality and its Role in Climate Research.- 4 Results of Homogeneity Testing of Long Time Series of Temperature and Precipitation in Germany.- 5 The First Known Instrumental Meteorological Observations in Extremadura (Spain): Badajoz (1830).- II: Observed ReglS4