Articles | Volume 28, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/npg-28-231-2021
https://doi.org/10.5194/npg-28-231-2021
Research article
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17 May 2021
Research article |  | 17 May 2021

Identification of droughts and heatwaves in Germany with regional climate networks

Gerd Schädler and Marcus Breil

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We used regional climate networks (RCNs) to identify past heatwaves and droughts in Germany. RCNs provide information for whole areas and can provide many details of extreme events. The RCNs were constructed on the grid of the E-OBS data set. Time series correlation was used to construct the networks. Network metrics were compared to standard extreme indices and differed considerably between normal and extreme years. The results show that RCNs can identify severe and moderate extremes.
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