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Interannual to millennial‐scale variability of River Ammer floods and its relationship with solar forcing

The relationship between River Ammer flood frequency variability, extreme summer climate over Europe, and solar forcing is investigated. First, we used observational data to evaluate extreme weather and climate anomaly patterns associated with flood and solar forcing as well as the possible dynamica...

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Published in:International journal of climatology 2021-01, Vol.41 (S1), p.E644-E655
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Extreme weather
Flood frequency
Floods
Frequency analysis
Irradiance
Lake sediments
Lakes
Potential vorticity
Precipitation
Precipitation patterns
River discharge
Rivers
Sediments
solar forcing
Solar irradiance
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Summer climates
Temperature patterns
Upper level waves
Variability
Vorticity
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Weather
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