Publications 2004

Smits, A., A.M.G. Klein Tank and G.P. Konnen, 2004. Trends in storminess over the Netherlands, 1962-2002. Submitted to Int. J. of Climatol.
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Klein Tank, A.M.G., G.P. Konnen and F.M. Selten, 2004. Signals of anthropogenic influence on European warming as seen in the trend patterns of daily temperature variance. Int.J. of Climatol., in press.
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WMO, 2004 (editor A.M.G. Klein Tank). WMO Statement on the Status of the Global Climate in 2003. World Climate Data and Monitoring Programme, WMO-No. 966, 12pp.
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Publications 2003

WMO, 2003 (editor A.M.G. Klein Tank). The Global Climate System Review, June 1996-December 2001. World Climate Data and Monitoring Programme, WMO-No. 950, 144pp.
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Klein Tank, A.M.G. and G.P. Konnen, 2003. Trends in indices of daily temperature and precipitation extremes in Europe, 1946-99. J.Climate, 16, 3665-3680.
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Verkaik, J.W., A. Smits, J. Ettema, 2003. Wind statistics of the Netherlands including coastal zone. KNMI Report, De Bilt.
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Shabalova, M.V. and A.F.V. van Engelen, 2003. Evaluation of a reconstruction of winter and summer temperatures in the Low Countries, AD 764-1998. Climatic Change, 58, 219-242.
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Wijngaard, J.B., A.M.G. Klein Tank and G.P. Konnen, 2003. Homogeneity of 20th century European daily temperature and precipitation series. Int.J. of Climatol., 23, 679-692.
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Klein Tank, Albert, 2002. Changing temperature and precipitation extremes in Europe's climate. Change, 63, 14-16.
Klein Tank, A.M.G. and Coauthors, 2002. Daily dataset of 20th-century surface air temperature and precipitation series for the European Climate Assessment. Int. J. of Climatol., 22, 1441-1453.
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Klein Tank, Albert, Janet Wijngaard and Aryan van Engelen, 2002. Climate of Europe; Assessment of observed daily temperature and precipitation extremes. KNMI, De Bilt, the Netherlands, 36pp.
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Peterson, T.C., M.A. Taylor, R. Demeritte, D.L. Duncombe, S. Burton, F. Thompson, A. Porter, M. Mercedes, E. Villegas, R. Semexant Fils, A. Klein Tank, R. Warner, A. Joyette, W. Mills, L. Alexander, B. Gleason, 2002. Recent changes in climate extremes in the Caribbean region. J. Geophys. Res., 107(D21), 4601, doi:10.1029/2002JD002251.
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Frich, P., L.V. Alexander, P. Della-Marta, B. Gleason, M. Haylock, A.M.G. Klein Tank, T. Peterson, 2002. Observed coherent changes in climatic extremes during the second half of the twentieth century. Climate Research, 19, 193-212.
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Engelen, A.F.V. van, J. Buisman and F. IJnsen, 2001. A millennium of weather, winds and water in the Low Countries. In: Jones, P.D., A.E.J. Ogilvie, T.D. Davies and K.R. Briffa (Eds.). History and Climate; Memories of the Future? Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York, 101-124.
Klein Tank, Albert and Janet Wijngaard, 2001. Changes in European temperature and precipitation extremes (pdf/8kb file). Poster presentation (Winzip/pdf/1.1mb file or Unix version). In: Abstracts Climate Conference 2001, Utrecht, The Netherlands, 20-24 August, 2001, 116.
Verkaik, J.W. and A. Smits, 2001. Interpretation and estimation of the local wind climate. In: Proceedings of the Third European and African conference on wind engineering, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, 2-6 July, 2001, 43-56.
Smits, Ilja, 2001. Analysis of the Rijkoort-Weibull model. KNMI Technical report TR-232, De Bilt.

Verkaik, J.W., 2000. Evaluation of two gustiness models for exposure correction calculations. Journal of Applied Meteorology, 39, 1613-1626.
Wijngaard, Janet B. and Albert M.G. Klein Tank, 2000. Homogeneity of the ECA temperature data. In: Proceedings of the third Seminar for Homogenization of Surface Climatological Data, Budapest, Hungary, 25-29 September, 2000 (in press).
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Klein Tank, Albert M.G. and Janet B. Wijngaard, 2000. European Climate Assessment (Winzip/pdf/0.9mb file or Unix version). In: Proceedings of the 3rd European Conference on Applied Climatology (pdf/68kb file), 16-20 October 2000, Pisa, Italy.
Demaree, G.R., T. Verhoeve, P.-J. Lachaert, E. Thoen et A. van Engelen, 2000. Quel temps fit-il en...ou une contribution de la climatologie historique belge a l'etude de la variabilite climatique. Ciel et Terre, vol. 116 (3), 86-90.
Engelen, A.F.V. van, J. Buisman, F. IJnsen, 2000. Reconstruction of the Low Countries temperature series AD 764-1998. In: Proceedings of the international conference on Climate Change and Variability, 13-17 September 1999, Tokyo, Japan.
Oldenborgh, G.J. van, G. Burgers and A. Klein Tank, 2000. On the El Nino teleconnection to spring precipitation in Europe. Int. J. Climatol. 20: 565-574.
Buisman, J. Thousand years of weather, wind and water in the Low Countries (A.F.V. van Engelen, Ed.). Series of books describing the weather in the Low Countries starting in the year 763 (in Dutch).

Klein Tank, A.M.G., 1999. Integration of precipitation data from various sources using a GIS. In: Proceedings of the international conference on Quality, management and availability of data for hydrology and water resources management, 22-26 March 1999, Koblenz, Germany.
Verkaik, J.W. and A.M.G. Klein Tank, 1999. Updating the Dutch Wind Climate Assessment. Poster at the European wind energy conference, 1-5 March 1999, Nice, France.
KNMI. Third report about the state of the climate in the Netherlands 1999.

Klein Tank, A.M.G., 1998. Climate scenarios. In: P. Huisman, W. Cramer, G. van Ee, J.C. Hooghart, H. Salz and F.C. Zuidema (eds.). Water in the Netherlands. Netherlands Hydrological Society (NHV), 150-152.

Klein Tank, A.M.G. and G.P. Konnen, 1997. Simple temperature scenario for a Gulf Stream induced climate change. Climatic Change, 37, 505-512.

Beersma, J., W. Fransen, A. Klein Tank., 1996. Survey of climate change scenario studies: a programming study. Dutch national Research Programme on Global Air Pollution and Climate Change, Report no. 410 200 002.
Klein Tank, A., 1996. How does the cold winter of 1996 fit in with global warming? Change, 29, 1-4.
Reuvekamp, A. and A.M.G. Klein Tank, 1996. Probability estimates of extreme winter rainfall in a changing climate. Change, 30, 8-10.

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