TY - JOUR TI - Course of winter temperatures in Poland in the years 1720–2015 AU - Marsz, Andrzej A. AU - Styszyńska, Anna TI - Course of winter temperatures in Poland in the years 1720–2015 AB - 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 VL - 2018 IS - Issue 155 PY - 2019 SN - 1644-3586 C1 - 2083-3113 SP - 85 EP - 138 DO - 10.4467/20833113PG.18.018.9541 UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/prace-geograficzne/article/przebieg-temperatury-zim-na-obszarze-polski-w-latach-1720-2015 KW - Winter temperatures KW - Poland KW - XVIII–XX centuries KW - temperature reconstruction KW - course and range of variation