Responses of large volcanic eruptions in the instrumental and documentary climatic data over central Europe

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 439-459

  Písek, Jan ^a   Brázdil, Rudolf ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Air temperature; Central Europe; Documentary data; Global radiation; Large volcanic eruptions

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; SEISMOLOGY; VOLCANOES;

DOCUMENTARY DATA; EUROPE; GLOBAL RADIATION; LARGE VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS; TROPICAL ERUPTIONS; VOLCANIC SIGNAL;

CLIMATOLOGY;

CLIMATOLOGY; RADIATION BALANCE; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 33645465736     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.1249     Document Type: Article

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