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Articles | Volume 19, issue 7
Articles | Volume 19, issue 7
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-19-1345-2023
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https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-19-1345-2023
© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 19, issue 7
Research article
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11 Jul 2023
Research article |  | 11 Jul 2023

The weather diary of Georg Christoph Eimmart for Nuremberg, 1695–1704

Stefan Brönnimann

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Weather reconstructions could help us to better understand the mechanisms leading to, and the impacts caused by, climatic changes. This requires daily weather information such as diaries. Here I present the weather diary by Georg Christoph Eimmart from Nuremberg covering the period 1695–1704. This was a particularly cold period in Europe, and the diary helps to better characterize this climatic anomaly.
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