Abstract Instrumental data from the pre–Industrial Revolution period are important to ­understand climate change. In this paper, observations made by French missionary J. Amiot in present-day central Beijing during 1757–62 were processed and analyzed. The represent earliest continuous dataset of meteorological records found China that have been digitized recently. Comparisons between annual tem...

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