@article{40b8e17c-0c69-4692-912a-99e108c5cc04, author = {Andrzej A. Marsz, Anna Styszyńska}, title = {Course of winter temperatures in Poland in the years 1720–2015}, journal = {Geographical Studies}, volume = {2018}, number = {Issue 155}, year = {2019}, issn = {1644-3586}, pages = {85-138},keywords = {Winter temperatures; Poland; XVIII–XX centuries; temperature reconstruction; course and range of variation}, abstract = {The work discusses the air temperature course of winter periods (December–March) in Poland in the years 1720–2015. The analysis is carried out for area mean values calculated from 5 stations: Szczecin, Wrocław, Warsaw, Wilno and Lwów. The time series of the mean area winter temperature (hereinafter PLZ) consists of combined observational (140 years) and  reconstructed (156 years) data. The PLZ reconstruction is based on independent variables, i.e. the values of the maximum area of the Baltic Sea covered with ice in a given ice season and the monthly temperatures in January and March from the Central England Temperature (CET) data set. The obtained correlations between the independent variables and the PLZ  are strong, highly significant and stable. A statistical analysis shows that the course of PLZ is strongly correlated (r = 0.80, p}, doi = {10.4467/20833113PG.18.018.9541}, url = {https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/prace-geograficzne/article/przebieg-temperatury-zim-na-obszarze-polski-w-latach-1720-2015} }