European Climatology of Day-to-Day Surface Air Temperature Difference in Multiple Data Sets
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Alternative codes found
RIV/00216208:11310/25:10503854
Result on the web
<a href="https://rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/joc.8839" target="_blank" >https://rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/joc.8839</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/joc.8839" target="_blank" >10.1002/joc.8839</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
European Climatology of Day-to-Day Surface Air Temperature Difference in Multiple Data Sets
Original language description
Substantial progress has been made in analyses of climate means and extremes, while much less has been done in understanding short-term (intraseasonal and synoptic-scale) variability. One particular aspect of short-term atmospheric variability is day-to-day temperature difference (DTD). Large DTDs negatively affect human health and also impact animals and plants, hence constituting one of the many weather-related risks to society. The main objectives of this study are to provide the climatology of statistical characteristics (distribution width, skewness and kurtosis) of DTD in Europe and compare DTD climatologies between five data sets (station observations, ECA & D: gridded observations, E-OBS: and reanalyses, NCEP/NCAR, JRA-55 and 20CR). DTD is largest in winter and smallest in summer: it tends to grow from the coast towards inland. Skewness is mostly negative in summer, whereas positive skewness prevails in winter with the exception of the British Isles and southeastern Europe. DTD distributions are leptokurtic (i.e., having kurtosis higher than Gaussian), with lower values of kurtosis prevailing in western Europe. Comparisons among data sets reveal their specific deficiencies, such as the existence of outlying unrealistic temperature values in station data that were not detected by quality check, the underestimation of the magnitude of DTD, particularly by the 20CR reanalysis, and overestimated skewness in the British Isles in winter by the reanalyses. The data set differing most from the others is the 20CR reanalysis, which exhibits substantial biases in skewness and kurtosis over large parts of Europe. On the other hand, the reanalysis most consistent with observations is JRA-55.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10510 - Climatic research
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA21-07954S" target="_blank" >GA21-07954S: Varying atmospheric variability</a><br>
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
International Journal of Climatology
ISSN
0899-8418
e-ISSN
1097-0088
Volume of the periodical
45
Issue of the periodical within the volume
8
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
11
Pages from-to
e8839
UT code for WoS article
001448161300001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-105000883046