Further documentary evidence of Northern Hemispheric coverage of the great dry fog of 1783
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Newly discovered documentary sources provide irrefutable evidence that the persistent tropospheric dry fog apparent over large areas in Europe in the summer of 1783 also appeared over a large part of North America, particularly near the eastern coasts of Labrador. This dry fog was caused by the Lakagigar or Laki eruption in southern Iceland in 1783-1784. Sources of information on the hemispheric spreading of the dry fog were the meteorological observations of the missionary David Kruegelstein and a letter from the Duke de la Tour du Pin to Carl Salvador in Milan, Italy.
Publication Name: Climatic Change
Subject: Earth sciences
ISSN: 0165-0009
Year: 1998
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Towards an interpretation of historical droughts in northern Nigeria: a comment on a paper by Aondover Tarhule and Ming-Ko Woo
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Tarhule and Woo's application of the standard deviation of the long-term mean annual rainfall in the interpretation of their data could be misinterpreted by planners and practicing engineers. Moreover, a naive employment of the standard deviation to determine drought thresholds could result in catastrophic decisions on the basis of incorrect probability analyses regarding the likelihood of the exceedance of specific values for cumulative rainfall deficit.
Publication Name: Climatic Change
Subject: Earth sciences
ISSN: 0165-0009
Year: 1999
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Further documentary evidence of northern hemispheric coverage of the great dry fog of 1783
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Several sources of information suggested that the great dry fog in 1783 that resulted from the eruption of the Lakagigar volcano in Iceland was of global proportions. One source was a detailed report of the meteorological observations made by missionary David Kruegelstein, indicating that the dry fog reach the eastern coast of Labrador in the summer of 1783. Another evidence suggested that the dry fog even reached as far as central Asia.
Publication Name: Climatic Change
Subject: Earth sciences
ISSN: 0165-0009
Year: 1998
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