Precipitation trends in the Canary Islands
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2003
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A strong decreasing trend in the Canary Islands' precipitation is detected by studying daily rainfall time series for the second half of the 20th century. An analysis of the extreme events shows that this trend is due mainly to a decrease in the upper percentiles of the precipitation distribution. The results suggest that local factors play a fundamental role on extreme event behaviour.
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© 2003 Royal Meteorological Society. This study is supported by the Spanish Comision Interministerial de Ciencia y Tecnologia under grant CLI98-0649. The Spanish Instituto Nacional de Meteorología provided the data for this study. The authors wish to thank the two anonymous referees for their useful comments, which contributed to improving the quality and presentation of this work.