Were southern Swedish summer temperatures before 1860 as warm as measured?

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 23, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1495-1521

  Moberg, Anders ^a   Alexandersson, Hans ^b   Bergström, Hans ^c   Jones, Philip D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b SWEDISH METEOROLOGICAL AND HYDROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Air circulation; Cloud amount; Early instrumental data; Multiple regression; Standard normal homogeneity test; Sweden; Temperature

Indexed keywords

AIR; DATA REDUCTION; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RADIATION PROTECTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

AIR CIRCULATION INDICES;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE VARIATION; CLOUD COVER; SUMMER; TEMPERATURE;

SWEDEN;

EID: 0242318735     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.945     Document Type: Article

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