Table 1.

Correlation of the monthly time series of KD onsets in Emilia with local monthly climate indices of 10th, 50th, and 90th percentile of minimum and maximum temperature obtained from full fields and anomalies and for their annual mean values.

	Tmin 10th p	Tmin 50th p	Tmin 90th p	Tmax 10th p	Tmax 50th p	Tmax 90th p
Monthly correlation	−0.23 **	−0.24 **	−0.22 **	−0.22 **	−0.21 **	−0.19 **
Monthly anomaly	0.10	0.03	0.13 *	0.10	0.11	0.13
Annual	0.33	0.27	−0.01	0.12	0.19	0.04

* indicates statistical significance at the 95% level, ** indicate statistical significance at the 99% level.