Harvests, wildfires, epidemics: How the jet stream has shaped extreme weather in Europe for centuries
Tree-ring data reveal that periodic shifts in strong winds high above the Earth’s surface have driven opposite climates in different parts of Europe for the past 700 years and likely much longer, resulting in contrasting patterns in weather, agricultural and societal extremes.
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