Extreme summer and winter temperatures in the Czech Lands after A.D. 1500 and their central European context

Geografie-Sbornik CGS

Volumn 115, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 266-283

  Dobrovolný, Petr ^a   Brázdil, Rudolf ^a   Kotyza, Oldřich ^b   Valášek, Hubert ^c  

^a MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b Regional Museum   (Czech Republic)

^c Moravian Land Archives   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Central Europe; Central European temperature series; Czech Lands; Documentary evidence; Extremely cold mild winters; Extremely cold warm summers; Past 500 years

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DOCUMENTARY SOURCE; EXTREME EVENT; SUMMER; WINTER;

CZECH REPUBLIC;

EID: 77957370723     PISSN: 12120014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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