A thousand-year record of temperature variations for Germany and central Europe based on documentary data

Journal of Quaternary Science

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 437-449

  Glaser, Rüdigger ^a   Riemann, Dirk ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Central Europe; Historical sources; Monthly resolution; Temperature reconstruction

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIATION; CLIMATOLOGY; HERMENEUTICS; HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; NUMERICAL METHOD; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOTEMPERATURE; RECONSTRUCTION;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY;

EID: 69949172524     PISSN: 02678179     EISSN: 10991417     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jqs.1302     Document Type: Article

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