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500-year temperature reconstruction in the Mediterranean Basin by means of documentary data and instrumental observations

Climatic change, 2010-07, Vol.101 (1-2), p.169-199 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2010 ;Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License ;ISSN: 0165-0009 ;EISSN: 1573-1480 ;DOI: 10.1007/s10584-010-9815-8 ;CODEN: CLCHDX

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Title:
500-year temperature reconstruction in the Mediterranean Basin by means of documentary data and instrumental observations
Author: Camuffo, Dario ; Bertolin, C ; Barriendos, M ; Dominguez-Castro, F ; Cocheo, C ; Enzi, S ; Sghedoni, M ; della Valle, A ; Garnier, E ; Alcoforado, M.-J ; Xoplaki, E ; Luterbacher, J ; Diodato, N ; Maugeri, M ; Nunes, M. F ; Rodriguez, R
Subjects: Archives & records ; Atmospheric Sciences ; Autumn ; Basins ; Climate ; Climate change ; Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts ; Earth and Environmental Science ; Earth Sciences ; Geography ; Historic documents ; Instruments ; Inventions ; Meteorology ; Proxies ; Springs ; Summer ; Temperature ; Thermometers ; Trends ; Water shortages ; Winter
Is Part Of: Climatic change, 2010-07, Vol.101 (1-2), p.169-199
Description: The paper reports the main results of the EU project Millennium in the Mediterranean area over the last 500 years. It analyses a long series of temperature from Portugal, Spain, France, Italy and Greece. The series are obtained by combining indices from documentary sources from AD 1500 to the onset of regular instrumental observations. There is an ongoing discussion regarding the proper way of combining documentary and instrumental data and how to translate accurately the conventional indices from − 3 to + 3 into modern units, i.e. degree Celsius. This paper produces for the first time a number of early instrumental observations, in some cases (i.e. Italy and France) covering 350 years, including thereby the earliest regular observations after the invention of the thermometer. These Mediterranean data show that anomalous temperatures usually had only a locally limited effect, while only few extreme events had a widespread impact over the whole region, such as the summer of 2003. During the period from 1850 to the present day, the Mediterranean temperature anomaly was close to the Northern Hemisphere in spring and summer, while it was warmer in autumn and winter. Compared with the long-term instrumental records (i.e. 1655 onwards), the recent warming has not exceeded the natural past variability characterized by heating-cooling cycles with no significant long-term trends.
Publisher: Dordrecht: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands
Language: English
Identifier: ISSN: 0165-0009
EISSN: 1573-1480
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-010-9815-8
CODEN: CLCHDX
Source: AUTh Library subscriptions: ProQuest Central
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500-year temperature reconstruction in the Mediterranean Basin by means of documentary data and instrumental observations

Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2010 ;Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License ;ISSN: 0165-0009 ;EISSN: 1573-1480 ;DOI: 10.1007/s10584-010-9815-8 ;CODEN: CLCHDX

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