Articles | Volume 9, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-9-41-2013
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-9-41-2013
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 and C. Pfister

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