Temperature changes in Poland from the 16th to the 20th centuries

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 773-791

  Przybylak, Rajmund ^a   Majorowicz, Jacek ^b,c   Wójcik, Gabriel ^a   Zielski, Andrzej ^a   Chora̧zyczewski, Waldemar ^a   Marciniak, Kazimierz ^a   Nowosad, Wiesław ^a   Oliński, Piotr ^a   Syta, Krzysztof ^a  

^a NICOLAUS COPERNICUS UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b Northern Geothermal   (Canada)

^c University of North Dakota   (United States)

Author keywords

Poland; Proxy data; Temperature reconstructions; Temperature variability

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY; GEOPHYSICS; GLOBAL WARMING; METEOROLOGY; STANDARDIZATION; STATISTICAL METHODS;

CHRONICLES; CHRONOLOGY; FUNCTIONAL SPACE INVERSION (FSI) METHOD; GROUND SURFACE TEMPERATURE (GST); MEAN AIR TEMPERATURE;

CLIMATOLOGY;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DENDROCLIMATOLOGY; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; TREE RING;

FORESTRY; METEOROLOGY; PINUS; STANDARDS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; POLAND; WORLD;

PINUS SYLVESTRIS;

EID: 20444436250     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.1149     Document Type: Article

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