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ACTA GEOPHYSICA
Volume 58, Issue 6, Pages 1115-1133Publisher
SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG
DOI: 10.2478/s11600-010-0026-5
Keywords
temperature extremes; seasonality; climate variability; climate change
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The awareness of global warming is well established and results from the observations made on thousands of stations. This paper complements the large-scale results by examining a long time-series of high-quality temperature data from the Secular Meteorological Station in Potsdam, where observation records over the last 117 years, i.e., from January 1893 are available. Tendencies of change in seasonal temperature-related climate extremes are demonstrated. Cold extremes have become less frequent and less severe than in the past, while warm extremes have become more frequent and more severe. Moreover, the interval of the occurrence of frost has been decreasing, while the interval of the occurrence of hot days has been increasing. However, many changes are not statistically significant, since the variability of temperature indices at the Potsdam station has been very strong.
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