Winter temperatures in the second half of the sixteenth century in the central area of the Iberian Peninsula
This paper studies the winter temperatures of the second part of the sixteenth century in the central area of the Iberian Peninsula. A large number of historical documents that are stored in many different Spanish archives were consulted in order to carry out this research. The data was first arrang...
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| description | This paper studies the winter temperatures of the second part of the sixteenth century in the central area of the Iberian Peninsula. A large number of historical documents that are stored in many different Spanish archives were consulted in order to carry out this research. The data was first arranged and weighted according to the intensity and significance of the meteorological phenomena described and, subsequently, these values were assigned an ordinal index ranging from +4 to −4. The statistical treatment applied is based on the reconstruction of temperatures equivalent to this ordinal index, expressed as anomalies of the 1961–1990 period, belonging to a reference station located at the approximate geographical center of the area under study. The results show winter thermal conditions different from current ones that, for the most part, stay below the reference average and that occurred with a wide range of variability. The influence that thermal conditions had on the evolution of some environmental aspects are considered based on the forest exploitation problem information and on the wine harvest production. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-176bba3fe3a24949b99805500161c4622022-12-22T01:42:40ZengCopernicus PublicationsClimate of the Past1814-93241814-93322008-12-0144357367Winter temperatures in the second half of the sixteenth century in the central area of the Iberian PeninsulaT. BullónThis paper studies the winter temperatures of the second part of the sixteenth century in the central area of the Iberian Peninsula. A large number of historical documents that are stored in many different Spanish archives were consulted in order to carry out this research. The data was first arranged and weighted according to the intensity and significance of the meteorological phenomena described and, subsequently, these values were assigned an ordinal index ranging from +4 to −4. The statistical treatment applied is based on the reconstruction of temperatures equivalent to this ordinal index, expressed as anomalies of the 1961–1990 period, belonging to a reference station located at the approximate geographical center of the area under study. The results show winter thermal conditions different from current ones that, for the most part, stay below the reference average and that occurred with a wide range of variability. The influence that thermal conditions had on the evolution of some environmental aspects are considered based on the forest exploitation problem information and on the wine harvest production.http://www.clim-past.net/4/357/2008/cp-4-357-2008.pdf |
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| title | Winter temperatures in the second half of the sixteenth century in the central area of the Iberian Peninsula |
| title_full | Winter temperatures in the second half of the sixteenth century in the central area of the Iberian Peninsula |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Winter temperatures in the second half of the sixteenth century in the central area of the Iberian Peninsula |
| title_short | Winter temperatures in the second half of the sixteenth century in the central area of the Iberian Peninsula |
| title_sort | winter temperatures in the second half of the sixteenth century in the central area of the iberian peninsula |
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