Climate change in Poland in the past centuries and its relationship to European climate: Evidence from reconstructions and coupled climate models

The Polish Climate in the European Context: An Historical Overview

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 3-39

  Luterbacher, Jürg ^a   Xoplaki, Elena ^b,c   Küttel, Marcel ^b   Zorita, Eduardo ^d   González Rouco, Jesus Fidel ^e   Jones, Phil D ^f   Stössel, Marco ^b   Rutishauser, This ^b,g   Wanner, Heinz ^b   Wibig, Joanna ^h   Przybylak, Rajmund ⁱ  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c CYPRUS INSTITUTE   (Cyprus)

^d INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^f UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^h UNIVERSITY OF LODZ   (Poland)

ⁱ NICOLAUS COPERNICUS UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Atmospheric teleconnection patterns; canonical correlation analysis; circulation dynamics; climate change; documentary data; ECHO G; Europe; HadCM3; Little Ice Age; Maunder Minimum; model data comparison; paleoclimatology; Poland; precipitation; reconstruction; temperature

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857874706     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-3167-9_1     Document Type: Chapter

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