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Not exact matches
The study, published in the International Journal of Climatology, highlights these
observations and other
historical data,
weather reports and flight logs of Allied air campaigns between 1943 and 1945.
The researchers looked at the
historical atmospheric
observations to document the conditions under which extreme
weather patterns form and persist.
The Project focused on
historical analyses of the hydrological cycle on a broad range of
weather and climate time scales and placed the NASA EOS suite of
observations in a climate context.
Actual atmospheric scientists know that the
historical observations are too sketchy and unreliable to decide one way or another as to whether tornadoes are increasing or not (see this excellent discussion by
weather expert Jeff Masters of The
Weather Underground).
Historical observations collected from both land and oceans provide a vital resource for climatologists, who can obtain a better understanding of past
weather from such records.
This corresponds very well to the descriptive
weather observations from various
historical records in this area.
But weren't last year's broad trends for
weather predicted, IIRC over at WUWT by Joe Bastardi, using
historical observations only?
For those that don't know, a «reanalysis» is a climate or
weather model simulation of the past that includes data assimilation of
historical observations.