The earliest daily barometric pressure readings in Italy: Pisa AD 1657-1658 and Modena AD 1694, and the weather over Europe

Holocene

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 337-349

  Camuffo, Dario ^a   Bertolin, Chiara ^a   Jones, Phil D ^b   Cornes, Richard ^b   Garnier, Emmanuel ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES AND CLIMATE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE CAEN   (France)

Author keywords

Barometer; Circulation indices; Climate change; Early instruments; Environmental history; Maunder Minimum

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; BAROMETRY; ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY; LOW TEMPERATURE; MAUNDER MINIMUM; PALEOATMOSPHERE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOTEMPERATURE; SOLAR ACTIVITY;

EUROPE;

EID: 77951278399     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: 14770911     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959683609351900     Document Type: Article

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