The historical pathway towards more accurate homogenisation

Domonkos, P.; Venema, V.; Auer, I.; Mestre, O.; Brunetti, M.

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The historical pathway towards more accurate homogenisation

P. Domonkos, V. Venema, I. Auer, O. Mestre, and M. Brunetti

P. Domonkos

Center for Climate Change, Univ. Rovira i Virgili, Campus Terres de l'Ebre, Tortosa, Spain

V. Venema

Meteorological institute of the University of Bonn, Germany

I. Auer

Zentralanstalt für Meteorologie und Geodynamik, Wien, Austria

O. Mestre

Meteo France, Ecole Nationale de la Meteorologie, Toulouse, France

M. Brunetti

Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (ISAC-CNR), Bologna, Italy

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