Brückner cycle

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Brückner cycle Tendency for the cyclical recurrence of runs of wet years at about 35-year intervals, with warmer and drier years in between, reported in 1890 by A. Brückner. Much attention was paid to it for a time, but its operation is obscured by the greater magnitude of the irregular year-to-year variations, and by cyclical recurrences of other periods.

Brückner cycle

views updated May 11 2018

Brückner cycle The tendency for the cyclical recurrence of runs of wet years at about 35-year intervals, with warmer and drier years in between, reported in 1890 by A. Brückner. Much attention was paid to it for a time, but its operation is obscured by the greater magnitude of irregular year-to-year variations, and by cyclical recurrences of other periods.