Observatoire Midi- Pyrénés) for their help in accessing the data. We thank the MYOCEAN project for providing the ,
We acknowledge the E-OBS dataset from the EU-FP6 project ENSEMBLES (http://ensembleseu .metoffice.com) and the data providers in the ECA&D project (http://www.ecad.eu). The authors are thankful to the reviewers for their useful criticism which lead to the ,
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