Decadal-scale changes in the tails of pr
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Martin Beniston
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Article
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2009
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract An analysis of several Swiss climatological sites reveals that a substantial change in the behaviour of pressure, minimum and maximum temperature extremes has occurred in the past two decades. Extreme cold tails defined by the 10% quantiles of temperature drop by a factor of 2 or 3, whi