RT Journal Article
T1 Reconstruction of the precipitation in the Canary Islands for the period 1595-1836
A1 García Herrera, Ricardo Francisco
A1 Macias, Antonio
A1 Gallego, David
A1 Hernández Martín, Emiliano
A1 Gimeno, Luis
A1 Ribera, Pedro
AB Records of taxes collected during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries contribute to understanding of climatic variability of the subtropical North Atlantic region.Historical documentary sources in the Canary Islands have been used to construct cereal production series for the period 1595–1836. The cereal growth period in this region covers essentially the rainy season, making these crops adequate to characterize the annual precipitation. A proxy for the Islands' rainfall based on the historical series of wheat and barley production has been constructed and assessed by using two independent series of dry and wet years. The spectral analysis of the crop production reveals a strong non stationary behavior. This fact, along with the direct comparison with several reconstructed and instrumental North Atlantic Oscillation series, suggests the potential use of the reconstructed precipitation as a proxy for this climatic oscillation during preinstrumental times.
PB American Meteorological Society
SN 0003-0007
YR 2003
FD 2003-08
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/51682
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/51682
LA eng
NO ©2003 American Meteorological Society. The authors wish to thank C. Appenzeller, E. Cook, J. Luterbacher, C. J. Proctor, and F. S. Rodrigo for providing their proxy NAO reconstructions. This study is supported by the Spanish Comisión Interministerial de Ciencia y Tecnología under Grant CLI98-0649.
NO Comisión Interministerial de Ciencia y Tecnología (CICYT), España
DS Docta Complutense
RD 12 abr 2025