The early instrumental warm-bias: A solution for long central European temperature series 1760-2007

Climatic Change

Volumn 101, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 41-67

  Böhm, Reinhard ^a   Jones, Philip D ^b   Hiebl, Johann ^a   Frank, David ^c   Brunetti, Michele ^d   Maugeri, Maurizio ^e  

^a ZAMG Zentralanstalt fuer Meteorologie und Geodynamik   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^c SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^d INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES AND CLIMATE   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPINE REGIONS; AUSTRIA; AVERAGE TEMPERATURE; CLIMATIC DATA; CORRECTION MODELS; DIURNAL CYCLE; EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE; GRAPE HARVEST; MEASURING SITES; ORIENTATION ANGLES; SIMULTANEOUS MEASUREMENT; TEMPERATURE DIFFERENCES; TEMPERATURE EVOLUTION; TEMPERATURE RECORDING; TEMPERATURE SERIES; TREE RINGS;

LOCATION; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

METADATA;

CALIBRATION; DIURNAL VARIATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; INSTRUMENTATION; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; TEMPERATURE PROFILE;

AUSTRIA;

VITACEAE;

EID: 77952607296     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-009-9649-4     Document Type: Article

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