Extreme Seasons

Trends in Twentieth-Century U.S. Extreme Snowfall Seasons

Temporal variability in the occurrence of the most extreme snowfall years, both those with abundant snowfall amounts and those lacking snowfall, was examined using a set of 440 quality-controlled, homogenous U.S. snowfall records. The frequencies with which winter-centered annual snowfall totals exceeded the 90th and 10th percentile thresholds at individual stations were calculated from 1900–01...

Remote estimation of grassland gross primary production during extreme meteorological seasons

Different models driven by remotely sensed vegetation indexes (VIs) and incident photosynthetically active radiation (PAR) were developed to estimate gross primary production (GPP) in a subalpine grassland equipped with an eddy covariance flux tower. Hyperspectral reflectance was collected using an automatic system designed for high temporal frequency acquisitions for three consecutive years, i...

Jurassic seasons

Stable isotope compositions of a late Jurassic ammonite shell: a record of seasonal surface water temperatures in the southern hemisphere? C. Lécuyer and H. Bucher Laboratory “Paléoenvironnements & Paléobiosphère”, UMR CNRS 5125 , Bâtiment “Geode”, Université Claude Bernard Lyon I et Institut Universitaire de France, 27–43 Boulevard du 11 Novembre 1918, 69622 Villeurbanne, France Paläontologisc...

The Seasons of Life

Projection of occurrence of extreme dry-wet years and seasons in Europe with stationary and nonstationary Standardized Precipitation Indices

[1] The probabilities of the occurrence of extreme dry/wet years and seasons in Europe are estimated by using two ways of the Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI and SPI-GEV) and the Standardized Nonstationary Precipitation Index (SnsPI). The latter is defined as the SPI by fitting precipitation data with a nonstationary Gamma distribution in order to model the precipitation time dependence u...