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CELEIRO CHAPLE, Maira. Cuba's historical climate: contribution to the PAGES' PEP-I transect. Invest. Geog [online]. 2001, n.46, pp.15-29. ISSN 2448-7279.

The research reveals the climatic variations in Cuba between the seventeenth and twentieth centuries. The historical method, used for the first time in the country, possesses a significant feasibility as well as an adequate qualitative and quantitative approximation for the reconstruction of precipitations and temperatures in Cuba's historical past. To this end, it was necessary to review and analyze a considerable amount of written documents containing information about the climate at that time and its environmental influence. For the climatic reconstruction two methods were used to estimate rainfall series, total curves regarding average deviation for many years, or integral curves. For the assessment of the general trend in precipitations and the deviation method, anomalies of standardized rainfall and temperature were also calculated, in the first instrument-aided observations. It was possible to estimate that the increase in mean annual temperature has been above 1.5 °C since the end of the nineteenth century, and that precipitations in the country's eastern and western regions have started to Increase from the middle of the nineteenth century.

Palabras llave : Historical data; climatic variations; Small Ice Age; anomalies; trends; Cuba.

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