Authors
Jürg Luterbacher, Elena Xoplaki, Carlo Casty, Heinz Wanner, Andreas Pauling, Marcel Küttel, Stefan Brönnimann, Erich Fischer, Dominik Fleitmann, Fidel J Gonzalez-Rouco, Ricardo García-Herrera, Mariano Barriendos, Fernando Rodrigo, Jose Carlos Gonzalez-Hidalgo, Miguel Angel Saz, Luis Gimeno, Pedro Ribera, Manola Brunet, Heiko Paeth, Norel Rimbu, Thomas Felis, Jucundus Jacobeit, Armin Dünkeloh, Eduardo Zorita, Joel Guiot, Murat Türkes, Maria Joao Alcoforado, Ricardo Trigo, Dennis Wheeler, Simon Tett, Michael E Mann, Ramzi Touchan, Drew T Shindell, Sergio Silenzi, Paolo Montagna, Dario Camuffo, Annarita Mariotti, Teresa Nanni, Michele Brunetti, Maurizio Maugeri, Christos Zerefos, Simona De Zolt, Piero Lionello, M Fatima Nunes, Volker Rath, Hugo Beltrami, Emmanuel Garnier, Emmanuel Ley Roy Ladurie
Publication date
2006/1/1
Source
Developments in Earth and environmental Sciences
Volume
4
Pages
27-148
Publisher
Elsevier
Description
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This chapter discusses a necessary task for assessing to which degree the industrial period is unusual against the background of pre-industrial climate variability. It is the reconstruction and interpretation of temporal and spatial patterns of climate in earlier centuries. There are distinct differences in the temporal resolution among the various proxies. Some of the proxy records are annually or even higher resolved and hence record year-by-year patterns of climate in past centuries. Several of the temperature reconstructions reveal that the late twentieth century warmth is unprecedented at hemispheric scales and is explained by anthropogenic, greenhouse gas (GHG) forcing. The chapter discusses the availability and potential of long, homogenized instrumental data, documentary, and natural proxies to reconstruct aspects of past climate at local- to regional-scales within the larger Mediterranean …
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