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INTERNATIONALJOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGYThe Royal Meteorological SocietyJournal of Climate Sciencewileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/joc

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30 November 2012

REVIEW ARTICLEProjections of the climate potential for tourism at local scales: Application to Platja de Palma, Spain

climate potential for tourism; climate change; regional modeling; ensemble strategy; statistical adjustment;

local scaleA. Amengual, V. Homar, R. Romero, S. Alonso and C. Ramis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2095

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A storm su

rge database for the US Gulf Coast

clone; U.S. Gulf Coast

H. F. Needham and B. D. Keim . .

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Contribution of late sp

Dr Radan HA. utShabb

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storm surge; hurricane; coastal flooding; data

, Czetrends; GEVch Rand

eJ.

pR.uGollan

blic

ring Eurasian snow cover

extent to Canadian winter temperatures

wavelet analysis; seasonal prediction; generalized extreme value analysis; regression analysis; composite

analysis; Eurasian snow cover; Canadian temperatures; North

ar . . . . . . . . . . .

. . . . . . . . . . . . 2124

Fine-resolution (25 m) topocli

nd humidities across

various hcanopy cover; climate variability; coastal influence; cold air drainage; microclimate; regional climate; synoptic

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2134

rends in the distributions of aggregated monthly precipitation over the La Plata Basin

; extreme precipitation; water vapour transport; La Plata Basin

M. E. Doyle, R. I. Saurral a

nd

V. R. Barros . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2149

Why is ENSO influencing Indian northeast monsoon in the recent decades?

northeast monsoon; ENSO; equatorial dee

p convection; tropical cyclone; Rossby-gyres

R. K. Yadav

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2163

Connection between NAO,

weather types and

precipitation in León, Spain (1948–2008)

logistic regression; rainfa ll; weather types; Spain; North Atlantic Oscillation

S. Fernández-González, S. del Río, A. Castro, A. Penas, M. Fernández-Raga, A. I. Calvo and R. Fraile . . . . . 2181

Development of statistic

al m

odels for at-site probabilistic seasonal rainfall forecast

se aso

nal forecast; rainfall; GAMLSS

G. Villarini and F. Serinaldi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2197

Analyses of annual and seasonal maximum daily rainfall accumulations for Ukraine, Moldova, and Romania

extreme rainfall; stationarity; eastern Europe; change point; trend analysis; mixture distribution

G. Villarini . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Estimation of trends in extreme me

lt-season duration at Svalbard

melt season; length; trends; extremes; Arctic; Sp

itzbergen

N. G. Kvamstø, D. J. Steinskog, D. B. Stephenson

and

D. B. Tjøstheim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2227

Development of an enhanced tropical cyclone tracks database for the southwest Pacific from 1840 to 2010

tropical cyclone; best tracks; data rescue; southwest Pacific; IBTrACS; visualisation tools; GoogleEarth

H. J. Diamond, A. M. Lorrey, K. R. Knapp and D. H. Levinson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2240

SHORT COMMUNICATIONSemi-supervised multivariate regression trees: putting the ‘circulation’ back into a ‘circulation-to-environment’

synoptic classifiersynoptic climatology; weather typing; map-pattern classification; regression trees; multivariate statistics

A. J. Cannon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2251

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Time Series Analysis in Meteorology and Climatology: An Introduction Claude Duchon, Robert Hale

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