Climate Variability and Extremes during the Past 100 years

The Observational Climate Record.- A Focus on Climate During the Past 100 Years.- From the Bottom to the Stratosphere Arctic Climate Features as Seen from the First International Polar Year (1882–1883) Until the End of World War II.- Arctic Sea Ice Data Sets in the Context of Climate Change During the 20th Century.- The Evolving SST Record from ICOADS.- Upper-air Temperature Trends: Current Problems and Some Recent Results.- Atmospheric Reanalyses and Climate Variations.- Constructing Climate Quality Atmospheric Temperatures from Satellite Microwave Measurements.- Total Ozone Observations During the Past 80 Years.- Climate Trends: Forcings and Processes.- Arctic Sea Ice Variability During the Last Half Century.- Decadal Changes in Surface Radiative Fluxes and Their Role in Global Climate Change.- Observed Interdecadal Changes in Cloudiness: Real or Spurious?.- The Role of Land-Atmosphere Interactions for Climate Variability in Europe.- Aerosol Effects on Precipitation Locally and Globally.- Climate Variability and Extremes.- Human Activity and Climate Change in Africa.- Impacts of Climate Variability, Trends and NAO on 20th Century European Plant Phenology.- Summer Heat Waves in Western Europe, Their Past Change and Future Projections.- Distribution Changes of Seasonal Mean Temperature in Observations and Climate Change Scenarios.- Chemical Changes and the Variability of the Stratosphere.- Long-term Tropospheric Ozone Trends: A Critical Review.- Simulation of Long-term Evolution of Stratospheric Dynamics and Chemistry: Role of Natural and Anthropogenic Forcings.- Dynamical Changes in the Arctic and Antarctic Stratosphere During Spring.- Creating Knowledge from the Confrontation of Observations and Models: The Case of Stratospheric Ozone.- Response of the Earth’sAtmosphere to the Solar Irradiance Variability.- Stratospheric Ozone Variations Caused by Solar Proton Events Between 1963 and 2005.- Sunspots, the QBO, and the Stratosphere in the North Polar Region: An Update.