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Alain Guerreau. Climate and vine-harvests (19th-20th centuries) : revisions and complements. Since 1870, various studies have taken series of dates of vine-harvests as an indicator of the evolution of the climate. More recent works on the history of vine-growing (M. Lachiver), on the agrometeorology of the vine (A. Carbonneau), and in particular, the major quantitative reconstruction of the Swiss climate since 1525 by C. Pfister, call for a reconsideration of these numerical series. They suggest the value of a more elaborate statistical approach (notably the introduction of the notion of the mobile coefficient of linear correlation between series) and of the attempt to use these series to obtain precious indicators of social and economic de...
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