Temperature and Precipitation Trends in Belgrade and Indicators of Changing Extremes for Serbia

Deviations and trends are analysed of seasonal and annual mean and extreme air temperatures, precipitation sums and the number of days with precipitation in Belgrade for the longer period of 1888-2006 for the purpose of recording climate changes. On the territory of Serbia, climate changes were monitored by the calculation of the indicators of changing extremes for temperature on 15 stations in the shorter period of 1957-2006 and for precipitation on 19 stations for the period 1961-2006. These climate extreme indices include the extremely hot days, cold days, warm nights, cold nights, the heat wave duration end the annual fraction due to extreme precipitation events.