TEMPERATURE VARIATIONS IN SPAIN SINCE 1901: A PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS

✍ Scribed by OÑATE, JUAN J.; POU, ANTONIO

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 648 KB
• Volume: 16
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0899-8418
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0088(199607)16:7<805::aid-joc48>3.0.co;2-z

✦ Synopsis

The long-term temperature trends since 190 1 at ten meteorological stations on the Iberian Peninsula and one in the Canary Islands are analysed.These trends are identified by applying the Manr-Kendall trend test to the series of maximum and minimum temperatures, the variability of both, and the diurnal temperature range. A multidimensional scaling analysis is used to produce an automatic grouped systemization of all trends.The results appear to confirm the hypothesis of a local regionalization of the more global influences, yielding three types of regional trends in temperature variations since 1901 : (i) less extreme in the north and north-west; (ii) more extreme conditions in the south-east and centre-east; and (iii) an overall increase in the south-west.