Extreme climate, not extreme weather: The summer of 1816 in Geneva, Switzerland

Climate of the Past

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 325-335

  Auchmann, R ^a   Bronnimann S ^a   Breda, L ^b   Buhler M ^a   Spadin, R ^b   Stickler, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b ETH Zurich   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLOUD COVER; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT METHOD; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PRESSURE EFFECT;

GENEVA [SWITZERLAND]; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 84858852694     PISSN: 18149324     EISSN: 18149332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/cp-8-325-2012     Document Type: Article

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