of the estimated probability
distributions of temperature and precipitation variability as a function of time, up to the year
2050, at
120 Nordic locations for temperature and at 230 locations for precipitation.
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1. Introduction
Weather services base their operational definition of climate on past observations. Commonly,
a 30-year normal period such as 1961-1990 is used (World
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