caa a22 4500 445799846 CHVBK 20180317145137.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20110601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s00704-010-0345-0 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s00704-010-0345-0 Rainfall uncertainty in the Mediterranean: time series, uncertainty, and extreme events [Elektronische Daten] [H. Reiser, H. Kutiel] Temporal precipitation irregularities, extreme rainfall, or droughts represent great climate concerns and have major impacts on the natural environment. The present study focuses on 41 stations spread over the entire Mediterranean region. The datasets contain daily rainfall totals, with a median length of 56years within the period of 1931-2006. The study aims at detecting significant trends in the time series and the uncertainties of four parameters: annual rainfall total, number of rain spells, the rain-spells yields, and rainy season length. In addition, it aims to detect significant temporal changes in the occurrence of extreme events of these parameters. Several methodologies have been used in this study, and the main conclusion is that despite the general assumption of tremendous changes in the rainfall regime, no significant temporal trends or uncertainty trends were found in most of the stations, neither in their annual totals, their number of rain spells, and their rain-spell yields, nor in their rainy season length. However, in the few cases that a significant trend was detected, former years tended to be wetter, longer, and with more abundant rain spells, while the opposite is seen in the later years; and uncertainty, tends to increase more than to decrease. Springer-Verlag, 2010 Reiser H. Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, Laboratory of Climatology, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel aut Kutiel H. Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, Laboratory of Climatology, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel aut Theoretical and Applied Climatology Springer Vienna 104/3-4(2011-06-01), 357-375 0177-798X 104:3-4<357 2011 104 704 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00704-010-0345-0 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00704-010-0345-0 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Reiser H. Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, Laboratory of Climatology, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Kutiel H. Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, Laboratory of Climatology, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Theoretical and Applied Climatology Springer Vienna 104/3-4(2011-06-01), 357-375 0177-798X 104:3-4<357 2011 104 704 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence SWISSBIB 445799846 BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer