Reconstruction of the precipitation in the Canary Islands for the period 1595-1836

From: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society | Date: August 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

Records of taxes collected during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries contribute to understanding of climatic variability of the subtropical North Atlantic region.

The Canary Islands are a volcanic archipelago located in the subtropical North Atlantic, between 27[degrees]37' and 29[degrees]25'N latitude and 13[degrees]10' and 18[degrees]10'W longitude, under the influence of the Azores high. The archipelago's abrupt orography makes the islands much wetter than usual at this latitude, allowing the existence of an old agrarian culture. From the very beginning of the Spanish settlement in ...

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