The Polish Climate in the European Context: An Historical Overview

Chapter 1 Climate Change in Poland in the Past Centuries and its Relationship to European Climate: Evidence from Reconstructions and Coupled Climate Models

Chapter 2 Historical Climate in Central Europe During the Last 500 Years

Chapter 3 Climatic Variations in the East European Plain During the Last Millennium: State of the Art

Chapter 4 The Climate of Europe in Recent Centuries in the Context of the Climate of Mid to High Latitude Northern Hemisphere from Borehole Temperature Logs

Chapter 5 Instrumental Observations

Chapter 6 Documentary Evidence

Chapter 7 Dendrochronological Data

Chapter 8 Geophysical Data

Chapter 9 Concluding Remarks to Part II

Chapter 10 Long-Term Changes of Bioclimatic Conditions in Cracow (Poland)

Chapter 11 Climate Warming in the Czech Republic: Evidence Stored in Shallow Subsurface

Chapter 12 History of the Gdańsk Pre-Instrumental and Instrumental Record of Meteorological Observations and Analysis of Selected Air Pressure Observations

Chapter 13 A Composite Reconstruction of the Russian Arctic Climate Back to A.D. 1435

Chapter 14 Growth/Climate Relationships in Tree-Ring Widths of Picea Abies in Lithuania and Poland

Chapter 15 Multi-Annual Variability of Cloudiness and Sunshine Duration in Cracow Between 1826 and 2005

Chapter 16 Changes in Sea Surface Temperature of the South Baltic Sea (1854–2005)

Chapter 17 Ground Surface Temperature Histories Reconstructed from Boreholes in Poland: Implications for Spatial Variability

Chapter 18 Precipitation Extremes and Disastrous Floods in Central Europe in July 1897

Chapter 19 Summer Temperatures in the Tatra Mountains During the Maunder Minimum (1645–1715)

Chapter 20 Seasonal Differentiation of Maximum and Minimum Air Temperature in Cracow and Prague in the Period 1836–2007

Chapter 21 Climate Changes in the Central and North-Eastern Parts of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth from 1656 to 1685

Chapter 22 The Climate of Polish Lands as Viewed by Chroniclers, Writers and Scientists

Chapter 23 Observations and Measurements of Precipitation in the Polish Province of Galicia in the Nineteenth Century

Chapter 24 Variability of the European Climate on the Basis of Differentiation of Indicators of Continentalism

Chapter 25 The First One Hundred Years (1791–1890) of the Wrocław Air Temperature Series