caa a22 4500 467918368 CHVBK 20180406152909.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e20061001xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10584-006-9129-z doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10584-006-9129-z Mauget Steven U.S. Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, USDA Plant Stress and Water Conservation Laboratory, Lubbock, Texas, 3810 4th Street, 79415, Lubbock, TX, USA aut Intra- to multi-decadal terrestrial precipitation regimes at the end of the 20th century [Elektronische Daten] [Steven Mauget] Intra- to multi-decadal (IMD) variation in terrestrial precipitation during 1901-98 was evaluated here by sampling annual precipitation rankings over 6-30 year moving time windows and converting those rankings to Mann-Whitney U statistics. Those U statistics were then used to identify the most significant concentrations of wet and dry years relative to a null hypothesis that assumes stationary climate variability. This time series analysis approach served as the basis of a climate survey method used to identify IMD precipitation regimes over continental areas, and was also used to evaluate IMD variation in time series of annual precipitation spatially averaged over those areas. These methods showed a highly significant incidence of wet years over North America during 1972-98, with 8 of the 10 wettest years of 1901-98 occurring during that 27-year period. A comparably significant incidence of late century wetness was also found over a northern Europe grid region, with 7 of the 10 wettest years occurring during 1978-98. Although significant wet and dry regimes were also found over other land areas in the last decades of the 20th century, the late century North American and northern European wet periods stood out as the most statistically significant found here during 1901-98. It is suggested that these recent wet periods are actually terrestrial evidence of a single multi-decadal precipitation mode extending across the North Atlantic, and the most observable evidence of an even broader pattern of recent North Atlantic climate change. Springer Science + Business Media B.V., 2006 Climatic Change Kluwer Academic Publishers 78/2-4(2006-10-01), 317-340 0165-0009 78:2-4<317 2006 78 10584 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-006-9129-z text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-006-9129-z text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Mauget Steven U.S. Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, USDA Plant Stress and Water Conservation Laboratory, Lubbock, Texas, 3810 4th Street, 79415, Lubbock, TX, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Climatic Change Kluwer Academic Publishers 78/2-4(2006-10-01), 317-340 0165-0009 78:2-4<317 2006 78 10584 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer