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| Titel |
Endless cold: a seasonal reconstruction of temperature and precipitation in the Burgundian Low Countries during the 15th century based on documentary evidence |
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C. Camenisch |
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| Sprache |
Englisch
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1814-9324
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In: Climate of the Past ; 11, no. 8 ; Nr. 11, no. 8 (2015-08-20), S.1049-1066 |
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250117387
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| Publikation (Nr.) |
 copernicus.org/cp-11-1049-2015.pdf |
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| Zusammenfassung |
| This paper applies the methods of historical climatology to present a
climate reconstruction for the area of the Burgundian Low Countries during
the 15th century. The results are based on documentary evidence that
has been handled very carefully, especially with regard to the distinction
between contemporary and non-contemporary sources. Approximately 3000
written records derived from about 100 different sources were examined and
converted into seasonal seven-degree indices for temperature and
precipitation. For the Late Middle Ages only a few climate reconstructions
exist. There are even fewer reconstructions which include spring and autumn
temperature or any precipitation information at all. This paper therefore constitutes a
useful contribution to the understanding of climate and weather conditions
in the less well researched but highly interesting 15th century. The
extremely cold winter temperatures during the 1430s and an extremely cold
winter in 1407/1408 are striking. Moreover, no other year in this century was
as hot and dry as 1473. At the beginning and the end of the 1480s and at the
beginning of the 1490s summers were considerably wetter than average. |
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