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Research article
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14 Jan 2013
Research article |
| 14 Jan 2013
An underestimated record breaking event – why summer 1540 was likely warmer than 2003
O. Wetter
Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Institute of History, Section of Economic, Social and Environmental History (WSU), University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
C. Pfister
Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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