The use of spanish historical archives to reconstruct climate variability

• Published in: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
• Main Authors: García Herrera, Ricardo, García, Rolando R., Prieto, Maria del Rosario, Hernández, Emiliano, Gimeno, Luis, Diaz, Henry F.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: American Meteorological Society
• Subjects: CLIMATE VARIABILITY; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/6.1; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/6; Argentino; Argentina; Ricardo; Diaz; Rosario; Prieto; North Atlantic; North Atlantic oscillation
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11336/40884

The use of documentary sources is a well-established technique for reconstructing climate during the past few centuries, when no instrumental or similar sources of data are available. Such sources have been used to study climate phenomena such as El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO; Quinn et al. 1987; Quinn and Neal 1992; Ortlieb 2000) and the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO; Jones et al. 1997; Luterbacher et al. 1999). They have also been used to describe regional climate variability, especially in Europe and Asia. In recent years, substantial efforts have been made to obtain climatic information from Spanish colonial archives covering the period 1500– 1900. Fil: García Herrera, Ricardo. Universidad Complutense de Madrid; España Fil: García, Rolando R. National Center for Atmospheric Research; Estados Unidos Fil: Prieto, Maria del Rosario. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Mendoza. Instituto Argentino de Nivología, Glaciología y Ciencias Ambientales. Provincia de Mendoza. Instituto Argentino de Nivología, Glaciología y Ciencias Ambientales. Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. Instituto Argentino de Nivología, Glaciología y Ciencias Ambientales; Argentina Fil: Hernández, Emiliano. Universidad Complutense de Madrid; España Fil: Gimeno, Luis. Universidad de Vigo; España Fil: Diaz, Henry F. Climatic Diagnostics Center; Estados Unidos