Sailing the Ocean of Complexity Lessons from the Physics-Biology Frontier

Weather records have been kept at Durham University Observatory in north-east England for almost 180 years-one of the longest single-site meteorological records in western Europe and the longest in northern England. This book celebrates and publishes the long Durham record, describes and explains th...

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Main Author: Succi, Sauro
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 2022, 2022
Series:Oxford scholarship online / Oxford scholarship online
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520 |a Weather records have been kept at Durham University Observatory in north-east England for almost 180 years-one of the longest single-site meteorological records in western Europe and the longest in northern England. This book celebrates and publishes the long Durham record, describes and explains the annual pattern of weather, and places the Durham records within the context of long-term climate change in north-east England. Statistics and expert analyses are accompanied by many contemporary local accounts and photographs, including events as varied as the enormous flooding on the Tyne and the Wear rivers in November 1771, skating on the Wear in the bitter cold of February 1895, a metre of snow in the blizzard of February 1941, Durham's hottest-ever day in July 2019, and its wettest winter in 2021