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Online-Ressource (717 p)
ISBN:
9780415120302
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Description based upon print version of record
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""Cover""; ""Climate Since A.D. 1500""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page ""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Contributing Authors""; ""Preface to the revised edition""; ""Preface to the first edition""; ""1 Climate since A.D. 1500: Introduction""; ""SECTION A: DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE""; ""2 Hudson's Bay Company ships' log-books as sources of sea ice data, 1751-1870""; ""3 Historical and instrumental evidence of climate: western Hudson Bay, Canada, 1714-1850""; ""4 Historical climate records from the northeastern United States, 1640 to 1900""
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""5 Documentary evidence for changes in the climate of Iceland, A.D. 1500 to 1800""""6 Monthly temperature and precipitation in central Europe 1525-1979: quantifying documentary evidence on weather and its effects""; ""7 Reconstructing the climate of northern Italy from archive sources""; ""8 Three historical data series on floods and anomalous climatic events in Italy""; ""9 Documentary evidence from the U.S.S.R.""; ""10 Reconstruction of 18th century summer precipitation of Nanjing, Suzhou, and Hangzhou, China, based on the Clear and Rain Records""
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""11 Beijing summer temperatures since 1724""""12 Reconstruction of rainfall variation of the Baiu in historical times""; ""13 Climatic variations in the longest instrumental records""; ""SECTION B: DENDROCLIMATIC EVIDENCE""; ""14 Mapping climate using tree-rings from western North America""; ""15 Dendroclimatic evidence from northern North America""; ""16 Dendroclimatic evidence from the Great Plains of the United States""; ""17 Dendroclimatic evidence from eastern North America""; ""18 Dendroclimatic evidence from southwestern Europe and northwestern Africa""
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""19 Recent dendroclimatic evidence of northern and central European summer temperatures""""20 Dendroclimatic evidence from the northern Soviet Union""; ""21 Dendroclimatic evidence from the western Himalaya""; ""22 Dendroclimatic studies in China""; ""23 South American dendroclimatological records""; ""24 Dendroclimatic evidence from Australasia""; ""SECTION C: ICE CORE EVIDENCE""; ""25 Ice core climate signals from Mount Logan, Yukon A.D. 1700-1987""; ""26 The Arctic from Svalbard to Severnaya Zemlya: climatic reconstructions from ice cores""; ""27 Ice core evidence from Peru and China""
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""28 Ice core evidence from the Antarctic Peninsula region""""29 Paleoenvironmental conditions in Antarctica since A.D. 1500: ice core evidence""; ""SECTION D: FORCING FACTORS""; ""30 Evidence of solar activity variations""; ""31 Records of explosive volcanic eruptions over the last 500 years""; ""32 The historical record of E1 Nino events""; ""SECTION E: SUMMARY""; ""33 Climatic variations over the last 500 years""; ""34 Recent developments in studies of climate since A.D. 1500""; ""Subject Index""; ""Name Index""
Additional Edition:
9780203430996
Additional Edition:
Print version Climate since AD 1500
Language:
English
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