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Early instrumental meteorological observations in Switzerland: 1708–1873
- Source :
- Earth System Science Data, 12 (2), Earth System Science Data, Vol 12, Pp 1179-1190 (2020), Earth System Science Data, Brugnara, Yuri; Pfister, Lucas; Villiger, Leonie; Rohr, Christian; Isotta, Francesco Alessandro; Brönnimann, Stefan (2020). Early instrumental meteorological observations in Switzerland: 1708–1873. Earth System Science Data, 12(2), pp. 1179-1190. Copernicus Publications 10.5194/essd-12-1179-2020
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Copernicus Publications, 2020.
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Abstract
- We describe a dataset of recently digitised meteorological observations from 40 locations in today's Switzerland, covering the 18th and 19th centuries. Three fundamental variables – temperature, pressure, and precipitation – are provided in a standard format after they have been converted into modern units and quality-controlled. The raw data produced by the digitisation, often including additional variables and annotations, are also provided. Digitisation was performed by manually typing the data from photographs of the original sources, which were in most cases handwritten weather diaries. These observations will be important for studying past climate variability in Central Europe and in the Alps, although the general scarcity of metadata (e.g. detailed information on the instruments and their exposure) implies that some caution is required when using them. The data described in this paper can be found at https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.909141 (Brugnara, 2020).
- Subjects :
- lcsh:GE1-350
010506 paleontology
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences
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lcsh:QE1-996.5
01 natural sciences
Metadata
Scarcity
lcsh:Geology
Geography
13. Climate action
General Earth and Planetary Sciences
Physical geography
Precipitation
910 Geography & travel
Raw data
550 Earth sciences & geology
lcsh:Environmental sciences
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
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Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Earth System Science Data, 12 (2), Earth System Science Data, Vol 12, Pp 1179-1190 (2020), Earth System Science Data, Brugnara, Yuri; Pfister, Lucas; Villiger, Leonie; Rohr, Christian; Isotta, Francesco Alessandro; Brönnimann, Stefan (2020). Early instrumental meteorological observations in Switzerland: 1708–1873. Earth System Science Data, 12(2), pp. 1179-1190. Copernicus Publications 10.5194/essd-12-1179-2020 <http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-1179-2020>
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....99265d4b89e24ea252ebf1d1d61cc02c