Abstract: Three-hourly present weather reports from ?15?000 stations around the globe and from the Comprehensive Ocean?Atmosphere Data Set from 1975 to 1997 were analyzed for diurnal variations in the frequency of occurrence for ...

Abstract: Present and past weather reports from ?15?000 stations around the globe and from the Comprehensive Ocean?Atmosphere Data Set from 1975 to 1997 were analyzed for the frequency of occurrence for and the percentage of the ...

Abstract: Monthly and 3-hourly precipitation data from twentieth-century climate simulations by the newest generation of 18 coupled climate system models are analyzed and compared with available observations. The characteristics ...

Abstract: In situ observations of surface air and dewpoint temperatures and air pressure from over 15 000 weather stations and from ships are used to calculate surface specific (q) and relative (RH) humidity over the globe (60°S?75°N) ...

Abstract: Global surface pressure data from 1976 to 1997 from over 7500 land stations and the Comprehensive Ocean?Atmosphere Data Set have been analyzed using harmonic and zonal harmonic methods. It is found that the diurnal pressure ...

Abstract: tmospheric demand for moisture and dry days are expected to increase, leading to drying over land in the twenty-first century. Here, the magnitude and key drivers of this drying are investigated using model simulations ...

Abstract: Annual and monthly mean values of continental freshwater discharge into the oceans are estimated at 1° resolution using several methods. The most accurate estimate is based on streamflow data from the world's largest 921 ...

Abstract: The spatial structure of asymmetries in sea surface temperature (SST) and surface air temperature (SAT) between average El Niño and La Niña events is considered. It is demonstrated that in historical SST and SAT reconstructions, ...