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https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-18-327-2022
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-18-327-2022
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25 Feb 2022
Research article |  | 25 Feb 2022

Analysis of early Japanese meteorological data and historical weather documents to reconstruct the winter climate between the 1840s and the early 1850s

Junpei Hirano, Takehiko Mikami, and Masumi Zaiki

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The East Asian winter monsoon causes orographic snowfall over the windward side of the Japanese islands (facing the Sea of Japan and the northwesterly winter monsoon flow) and negative temperature anomalies around Japan. In this study, we reconstruct the outbreak of the winter monsoon around Japan for the winter from the 1840s to the early 1850s by using daily weather information recorded in old Japanese diaries and early daily instrumental temperature data.
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