The Polish Climate in the European Context: An Historical Overview

The European Background. - Climate Change in Poland in the Past Centuries and its Relationship to European Climate: Evidence from Reconstructions and Coupled Climate Models. - Historical Climate in Central Europe During the Last 500 Years. - Climatic Variations in the East European Plain During the Last Millennium: State of the Art. - The Climate of Europe in Recent Centuries in the Context of the Climate of Mid to High Latitude Northern Hemisphere from Borehole Temperature Logs. - The Climate of Poland in Recent Centuries: A Synthesis of Current Knowledge. - Instrumental Observations. - Documentary Evidence. - Dendrochronological Data. - Geophysical Data. - Concluding Remarks to Part II. - The Climate of Poland and Europe in Recent Centuries: New Findings Results. - Long-Term Changes of Bioclimatic Conditions in Cracow (Poland). - Climate Warming in the Czech Republic: Evidence Stored in Shallow Subsurface. - History of the Gda? sk Pre-Instrumental and Instrumental Record of Meteorological Observations and Analysis of Selected Air Pressure Observations. - A Composite Reconstruction of the Russian Arctic Climate Back to A. D. 1435. - Growth/Climate Relationships in Tree-Ring Widths of Picea Abies in Lithuania and Poland. - Multi-Annual Variability of Cloudiness and Sunshine Duration in Cracow Between 1826 and 2005. - Changes in Sea Surface Temperature of the South Baltic Sea (1854 2005). - Ground Surface Temperature Histories Reconstructed from Boreholes in Poland: Implications for Spatial Variability. - Precipitation Extremes and Disastrous Floods in Central Europe in July 1897. - Summer Temperatures in the Tatra Mountains During the Maunder Minimum (1645 1715). - Seasonal Differentiation of Maximum and Minimum Air Temperature in Cracow and Prague in the Period 1836 2007. - ClimateChanges in the Central and North-Eastern Parts of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth from 1656 to 1685. - The Climate of Polish Lands as Viewed by Chroniclers, Writers and Scientists. - Observations and Measurements of Precipitation in the Polish Province of Galicia in the Nineteenth Century. - Variability of the European Climate on the Basis of Differentiation of Indicators of Continentalism. - The First One Hundred Years (1791 1890) of the Wroc? aw Air Temperature Series.