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2. ModE-RA: a global monthly paleo-reanalysis of the modern era 1421 to 2008
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Valler, Veronika, Franke, Jörg, Brugnara, Yuri, Samakinwa, Eric, Hand, Ralf, Lundstad, Elin, Burgdorf, Angela-Maria, Lipfert, Laura, Friedman, Andrew Ronald, and Brönnimann, Stefan
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- 2024
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3. A decade of cold Eurasian winters reconstructed for the early 19th century
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Reichen, Lukas, Burgdorf, Angela-Maria, Brönnimann, Stefan, Franke, Jörg, Hand, Ralf, Valler, Veronika, Samakinwa, Eric, Brugnara, Yuri, and Rutishauser, This
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- 2022
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4. Global Daily Surface Air Temperatures from EUSTACE
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Rayner, Nick A., Auchmann, Renate, Bessembinder, Janette, Brönnimann, Stefan, Brugnara, Yuri, Capponi, Francesco, Carrea, Laura, Dodd, Emma M. A., Ghent, Darren, Good, Elizabeth, Høyer, Jacob L., Kennedy, John J., Kent, Elizabeth C., Killick, Rachel E., van der Linden, Paul, Lindgren, Finn, Madsen, Kristine S., Merchant, Christopher J., Mitchelson, Joel R., Morice, Colin P., Nielsen-Englyst, Pia, Ortiz, Patricio F., Remedios, John J., van der Schrier, Gerard, Squintu, Antonello A., Stephens, Ag, Thorne, Peter W., Tonboe, Rasmus T., Trent, Tim, Veal, Karen L., Waterfall, Alison M., Winfield, Kate, Winn, Jonathan, and Woolway, R. Iestyn
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- 2020
5. The EUSTACE Project : Delivering Global, Daily Information on Surface Air Temperature
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Rayner, Nick A., Auchmann, Renate, Bessembinder, Janette, Brönnimann, Stefan, Brugnara, Yuri, Capponi, Francesco, Carrea, Laura, Dodd, Emma M. A., Ghent, Darren, Good, Elizabeth, Høyer, Jacob L., Kennedy, John J., Kent, Elizabeth C., Killick, Rachel E., van der Linden, Paul, Lindgren, Finn, Madsen, Kristine S., Merchant, Christopher J., Mitchelson, Joel R., Morice, Colin P., Nielsen-Englyst, Pia, Ortiz, Patricio F., Remedios, John J., van der Schrier, Gerard, Squintu, Antonello A., Stephens, Ag, Thorne, Peter W., Tonboe, Rasmus T., Trent, Tim, Veal, Karen L., Waterfall, Alison M., Winfield, Kate, Winn, Jonathan, and Woolway, R. Iestyn
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- 2020
6. Instrumental Meteorological Records Before 1850 : An Inventory
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Brönnimann, Stefan, Allan, Rob, Ashcroft, Linden, Baer, Saba, Barriendos, Mariano, Brázdil, Rudolf, Brugnara, Yuri, Brunet, Manola, Brunetti, Michele, Chimani, Barbara, Cornes, Richard, Domínguez-Castro, Fernando, Filipiak, Janusz, Founda, Dimitra, Herrera, Ricardo García, Gergis, Joelle, Grab, Stefan, Hannak, Lisa, Huhtamaa, Heli, Jacobsen, Kim S., Jones, Phil, Jourdain, Sylvie, Kiss, Andrea, Lin, Kuanhui Elaine, Lorrey, Andrew, Lundstad, Elin, Luterbacher, Jürg, Mauelshagen, Franz, Maugeri, Maurizio, Maughan, Nicolas, Moberg, Anders, Neukom, Raphael, Nicholson, Sharon, Noone, Simon, Nordli, Øyvind, Ólafsdóttir, Kristín Björg, Pearce, Petra R., Pfister, Lucas, Pribyl, Kathleen, Przybylak, Rajmund, Pudmenzky, Christa, Rasol, Dubravka, Reichenbach, Delia, Řezníčková, Ladislava, Rodrigo, Fernando S., Rohr, Christian, Skrynyk, Oleg, Slonosky, Victoria, Thorne, Peter, Valente, Maria Antónia, Vaquero, José M., Westcott, Nancy E., Williamson, Fiona, and Wyszyński, Przemysław
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- 2020
7. UNLOCKING PRE-1850 INSTRUMENTAL METEOROLOGICAL RECORDS : A Global Inventory
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Brönnimann, Stefan, Allan, Rob, Ashcroft, Linden, Baer, Saba, Barriendos, Mariano, Brázdil, Rudolf, Brugnara, Yuri, Brunet, Manola, Brunetti, Michele, Chimani, Barbara, Cornes, Richard, Domínguez-Castro, Fernando, Filipiak, Janusz, Founda, Dimitra, Herrera, Ricardo García, Gergis, Joelle, Grab, Stefan, Hannak, Lisa, Huhtamaa, Heli, Jacobsen, Kim S., Jones, Phil, Jourdain, Sylvie, Kiss, Andrea, Lin, Kuanhui Elaine, Lorrey, Andrew, Lundstad, Elin, Luterbacher, Jürg, Mauelshagen, Franz, Maugeri, Maurizio, Maughan, Nicolas, Moberg, Anders, Neukom, Raphael, Nicholson, Sharon, Noone, Simon, Nordli, Øyvind, Ólafsdóttir, Kristín Björg, Pearce, Petra R., Pfister, Lucas, Pribyl, Kathleen, Przybylak, Rajmund, Pudmenzky, Christa, Rasol, Dubravka, Reichenbach, Delia, Řezníčková, Ladislava, Rodrigo, Fernando S., Rohr, Christian, Skrynyk, Oleg, Slonosky, Victoria, Thorne, Peter, Valente, Maria Antónia, Vaquero, José M., Westcottt, Nancy E., Williamson, Fiona, and Wyszyński, Przemysław
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- 2019
8. Early 20th century Southern Hemisphere cooling.
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Brönnimann, Stefan, Brugnara, Yuri, and Wilkinson, Clive
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ANTARCTIC oscillation ,TWENTIETH century ,ATMOSPHERIC temperature ,ATMOSPHERIC models ,SURFACE temperature - Abstract
Global surface air temperature increased by ca. 0.5 °C from the 1900s to the mid-1940s, also known as Early 20th Century Warming (ETCW). However, the ETCW started from a particularly cold phase, peaking in 1908–1911. The cold phase was global but more pronounced in the Southern Hemisphere than in the Northern Hemisphere and most pronounced in the Southern Ocean, raising the question of whether uncertainties in the data might play a role. Here we analyse this period based on reanalysis data and reconstructions, complemented with newly digitised ship data from 1903–1916, as well as land observations. The cooling is seen consistently in different data sets, though with some differences. Results suggest that the cooling was related to a La-Niña-like pattern in the Pacific, a cold tropical and subtropical South Atlantic, a cold extratropical South Pacific, and cool southern midlatitude land areas. The Southern Annular Mode was positive, with a strengthened Amundsen–Bellingshausen seas low, although the spread of the data products is considerable. All results point to a real climatic phenomenon as the cause of this anomaly and not a data artefact. Atmospheric model simulations are able to reproduce temperature and pressure patterns, consistent with a real and perhaps ocean-forced signal. Together with two volcanic eruptions just before and after the 1908–1911 period, the early 1900s provided a cold start into the ETCW. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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9. Homogeneity assessment of phenological records from the Swiss Phenology Network
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Brugnara, Yuri, Auchmann, Renate, Rutishauser, This, Gehrig, Regula, Pietragalla, Barbara, Begert, Michael, Sigg, Christian, Knechtl, Valentin, Konzelmann, Thomas, Calpini, Bertrand, and Brönnimann, Stefan
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- 2020
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10. Alpine Climate Change Derived From Instrumental Measurements
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Brugnara, Yuri
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- 2020
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11. Dynamical downscaling and data assimilation for a cold-air outbreak in the European Alps during the Year Without Summer 1816.
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Stucki, Peter, Pfister, Lucas, Brugnara, Yuri, Varga, Renate, Hari, Chantal, and Brönnimann, Stefan
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DOWNSCALING (Climatology) ,WEATHER forecasting ,METEOROLOGICAL research ,EXTREME weather ,CLOUDINESS ,VOLCANIC eruptions - Abstract
The "Year Without Summer" of 1816 was characterized by extraordinarily cold and wet periods in Central Europe, and it was associated with severe crop failures, famine, and socio-economic disruptions. From a modern perspective and beyond its tragic consequences, the summer of 1816 represents a rare occasion to analyze the adverse weather (and its impacts) after a major volcanic eruption. However, given the distant past, obtaining the high-resolution data needed for such studies is a challenge. In our approach, we use dynamical downscaling, in combination with 3D-variational data assimilation of early instrumental observations, for assessing a cold-air outbreak in early June 1816. We find that the cold spell is well represented in the coarse-resolution 20
th Century Reanalysis product, which is used for initializing the regional Weather Research and Forecasting Model. Our downscaling simulations (including a 19th -century land-use scheme) reproduce and explain meteorological processes well at regional to local scales, such as a foehn wind situation over the Alps with much lower temperatures on its northern side. Simulated weather variables, such as cloud cover or rainy days, are simulated in good agreement with (eye) observations and (independent) measurements, with small differences between the simulations with and without data assimilation. However, validations with partly independent station data show that simulations with assimilated pressure and temperature measurements are closer to the observations, e.g. regarding temperatures during the coldest night, for which snowfall as low as the Swiss Plateau was reported, and a rapid pressure increase thereafter. General improvements from data assimilation are also evident in simple quantitative analyses of temperature and pressure. In turn, data assimilation requires careful selection, preprocessing and bias-adjustment of the underlying observations. Our findings underline the great value of digitizing efforts of early instrumental data and provide novel opportunities to learn from extreme weather and climate events as far back as 200 years or more. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]- Published
- 2024
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12. Early Twentieth Century Southern Hemisphere Cooling.
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Brönnimann, Stefan, Brugnara, Yuri, and Wilkinson, Clive
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Global surface air temperature increased by ca. 0.5 °C from the 1900s to the mid-1940s, also known as Early Twentieth Century Warming (ETCW). However, the ETCW started from a particularly cold phase, peaking in 1908-1911. The cold phase was global but more pronounced in the Southern Hemisphere than in the Northern Hemisphere and most pronounced in the Southern Ocean, raising the question whether uncertainties in the data might play a role. Here we analyse this period based on reanalysis data and reconstructions, complemented with newly digitized ship data from 1903-1916 as well as land observations. The cooling is seen consistently in different data sets, though with some differences. Results suggest that the cooling was related to a La Niña-like pattern in the Pacific, a cold tropical and subtropical South Atlantic, a cold extratropical South Pacific, and cool Southern midlatitude land areas. The Southern Annular Mode was positive, with a strengthened Amundsen-Bellingshausen seas low, although the spread of the data products is considerable. All results point to a real climatic phenomenon as the cause of this anomaly and not a data artefact. Atmospheric model simulations are able to reproduce temperature and pressure patterns, consistent with a real and perhaps ocean-forced signal. Together with two volcanic eruptions just before and after the 1908-1911 period, the early 1900s provided a cold start into the ETCW. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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13. Revisiting the early instrumental temperature records of Basel and Geneva.
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BRUGNARA, YURI and BRÖNNIMANN, STEFAN
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TEMPERATURE - Abstract
Basel and Geneva have two of the longest meteorological records in Switzerland, covering more than two and a half centuries. The respective monthly temperature series were published over 60 years ago and are part of todays main global temperature data sets. After digitizing the raw sub-daily measurements, we rebuilt the early instrumental part (i.e., before 1864) of the two series at daily resolution using modern methods and additional data sources that were not considered in previous efforts. A comparison with the old series and with other existing recontructions show a generally good agreement only for the last 30 years. Before the 1830s a few systematic differences appear, particularly in summer, suggesting that both new and old versions contain residual inhomogeneities. We use the new series together with other reconstructions to analyze the periods 1791--1807 and 1808--1824, which have been described, respectively, as a warm and cold period in summer in previous studies. Our results suggest that most existing instrumental data sets tend to overestimate summer temperature in Switzerland during the former period, confirming previous results based on proxy records. The overestimation is particularly large (almost 1 °C) in the old Geneva series. On the other hand, we find a probable systematic underestimation of summer temperature in our Basel series. Before the 1780s the agreement between existing reconstructions is poor, so that it is hardly possible to make confident statements about climate variability for the first few decades covered by the series. Nevertheless, the daily resolution of the data allows an insight into individual meteorological events such as cold spells and heat waves. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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14. South African extreme weather during the 1877–1878 El Niño.
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Brugnara, Yuri, Brönnimann, Stefan, Grab, Stefan, Steinkopf, Jessica, Burgdorf, Angela‐Maria, Wilkinson, Clive, and Allan, Rob
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EXTREME weather , *WEATHER ,EL Nino - Abstract
The El Niño event of 1877–1878 was one of the strongest during the last 150 years and had worldwide impacts, bringing widespread severe droughts, but also unusually wet conditions to some regions. We focus on the effects that this event had on precipitation in South Africa, taking advantage of newly rescued instrumental data, as well as documentary sources. Through the assimilation of the new data into an existing reanalysis, we could improve the synoptic reconstruction of specific weather events. However, much remains to be done in order to achieve a good and consistent reconstruction quality for the region. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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15. A 258-year-long data set of temperature and precipitation fields for Switzerland since 1763
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Imfeld, Noemi, Pfister, Lucas, Brugnara, Yuri, and Brönnimann, Stefan
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Global and Planetary Change ,Stratigraphy ,Paleontology - Abstract
Climate reconstructions give insights in monthly and seasonal climate variability in the past few hundred years. However, for understanding past extreme weather events and for relating them to impacts, for example through crop yield simulations or hydrological modelling, reconstructions on a weather timescale are needed. Here, we present a data set of 258 years of daily temperature and precipitation fields for Switzerland from 1763 to 2020. The data set was reconstructed with the analogue resampling method, which resamples meteorological fields for a historical period based on the most similar day in a reference period. These fields are subsequently improved with data assimilation for temperature and bias correction for precipitation. Even for an early period prior to 1800 with scarce data availability, we found good validation results for the temperature reconstruction especially in the Swiss Plateau. For the precipitation reconstruction, skills are considerably lower, which can be related to the few precipitation measurements available and the heterogeneous nature of precipitation. By means of a case study of the wet and cold years from 1769 to 1772, which triggered widespread famine across Europe, we show that this data set allows more detailed analyses than hitherto possible.
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- 2023
16. The weather diaries of the Kirch family: Leipzig, Guben, and Berlin (1677–1774).
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Brönnimann, Stefan and Brugnara, Yuri
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WEATHER ,TEMPERATURE measurements - Abstract
Astronomer and calendar maker Gottfried Kirch was a keen weather observer and made weather notes in his diary starting in 1677 in Leipzig. In parallel, his second wife Maria Margaretha Winkelmann started a weather diary in 1700 in Berlin. The diaries also contain instrumental measurements of temperature and later pressure. After the death of Gottfried in 1710 and Maria Margaretha in 1720, observations were continued by their son Christfried and then for another 44 years by their daughter Christine. The last measurements date to 1774. Together, the diaries span almost a century of weather observations. The instrumental measurements constitute the oldest part of Germany's longest temperature series, which was however only available as monthly means up to now. Here we publish the imaged diaries, together amounting to 10 445 images. Further, we present the digitized instrumental series, which will serve as the starting point for a new, daily Berlin series. By comparing the series to neighbouring records, we show that the pressure data are reliable in a quantitative sense, whereas this is true for the temperature data only in a qualitative sense as the temperature scale was not converted. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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17. Homogenization of daily temperature and humidity series in the UK.
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Brugnara, Yuri, McCarthy, Mark P., Willett, Kate M., and Rayner, Nick A.
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TEMPERATURE , *SPRING , *CLIMATE change , *REGIONAL differences , *QUANTILES , *HUMIDITY - Abstract
Building on previous experience with continental and global data sets, we use a quantile‐matching approach to homogenize temperature and humidity series measured by a network of 220 stations in the United Kingdom (UK). The data set spans 160 years at daily resolution, although data coverage varies greatly in time, space, and across variables. We use the homogenized data to analyse trends of the mean values as well as the lowest and highest quantiles of the distribution over the last 100 and 50 years. For the latter period, we find large regional differences, particularly between the southeastern and the northern part of the UK. The southeast has seen a faster warming, particularly for maximum temperatures in spring and summer, and a reduction of relative humidity; the northern mainland has become more humid and only slightly warmer. These differences become more evident for the highest quantiles and reflect a well‐known pattern of climate change affecting the extra‐tropics. Among the studied variables, the increases of wet bulb temperature and specific humidity are the most spatially homogeneous and are statistically significant for most stations in all seasons except winter. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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18. A new collection of Swiss early instrumental meteorological data and some applications
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Brönnimann, Stefan, Brugnara, Yuri, Rohr, Christian, and Brönnimann, S.
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300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology ,910 Geography & travel - Published
- 2022
19. Early meteorological series from Geneva, 1760-1798
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Brugnara, Yuri, Brönnimann, Stefan, Grenon, Michel, Baumann, Jeanne, Wyss, Pascal, and Brönnimann, S.
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910 Geography & travel - Published
- 2022
20. Statistical reconstruction of daily temperature and sea level pressure in Europe for the severe winter 1788/89.
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Pappert, Duncan, Barriendos, Mariano, Brugnara, Yuri, Imfeld, Noemi, Jourdain, Sylvie, Przybylak, Rajmund, Rohr, Christian, and Brönnimann, Stefan
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SEA level ,EXTREME weather ,TEMPERATURE ,SOCIAL impact ,CLIMATOLOGISTS ,WINTER - Abstract
The winter 1788/89 was one of the coldest winters Europe had witnessed in the past 300 years. Fortunately, for historical climatologists, this extreme event occurred at a time when many stations across Europe, both private and as part of coordinated networks, were making quantitative observations of the weather. This means that several dozen early instrumental series are available to carry out an in-depth study of this severe cold spell. While there have been attempts to present daily spatial information for this winter, there is more to be done to understand the weather variability and day-to-day processes that characterised this weather extreme. In this study, we seek to reconstruct daily spatial high-resolution temperature and sea level pressure fields of the winter 1788/89 in Europe from November through February. The reconstruction is performed with an analogue resampling method (ARM) that uses both historical instrumental data and a weather type classification. Analogue reconstructions are then post-processed through an ensemble Kalman fitting (EnKF) technique. Validation experiments show good skill for both reconstructed variables, which manage to capture the dynamics of the extreme in relation to the large-scale circulation. These results are promising for more such studies to be undertaken, focusing on different extreme events and other regions in Europe and perhaps even further back in time. The dataset presented in this study may be of sufficient quality to allow historians to better assess the environmental and social impacts of the harsh weather. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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21. Pre-industrial temperature variability on the Swiss Plateau derived from the instrumental daily series of Bern and Zurich.
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Brugnara, Yuri, Hari, Chantal, Pfister, Lucas, Valler, Veronika, and Brönnimann, Stefan
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CLIMATE research ,TEMPERATURE ,TRANSITION temperature ,TEMPERATURE measurements - Abstract
We describe the compilation of two early instrumental daily temperature series from Bern and Zurich, Switzerland, starting from 1760 and 1756, respectively. The series are a combination of numerous small segments from different observers at different locations within and outside the two cities that are converted to modern units and homogenized. In addition, we introduce a methodology to estimate the errors affecting daily and monthly mean values derived from early instrumental observations. Given the frequent small data gaps, we merge the two daily series into a more complete series representing the central Swiss Plateau. We finally compare the homogenized monthly series with other temperature reconstructions for Switzerland. We find significant differences before 1860, pointing to biases that might affect some of the most widely used instrumental data sets. In general, the homogenization of temperature measurements at the transition between the early instrumental and national weather service eras remains a problematic issue in historical climatology and has significant implications for other fields of climate research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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22. 250 years of daily weather: Temperature and precipitation fields for Switzerland since 1763.
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Imfeld, Noemi, Pfister, Lucas, Brugnara, Yuri, and Brönnimann, Stefan
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Climate reconstructions give insights in monthly and seasonal climate variability of the past few hundred years. However, for understanding past extreme weather events and for relating them to impacts, for example through crop yield simulations or hydrological modelling, reconstructions on a weather time scale are needed. Here, we present a data set of 250 years of daily temperature and precipitation fields for Switzerland for 1763 to 2020. The data set was reconstructed with the analogue resampling method which resamples meteorological fields for a historical period based on the most similar day in a reference period. These fields are subsequently improved with data assimilation for temperature and bias correction for precipitation. Even for an early period prior to 1800 with scarce data availability, we found good validation results for the temperature reconstruction especially in the Swiss Plateau. For the precipitation reconstruction, skills are considerably lower, which can be related to the few precipitation measurements available and the heterogeneous nature of precipitation. By means of a case study on the wet and cold years from 1769 to 1772, which triggered wide-spread famine across Europe, we show that this dataset allows more detailed analyses than hitherto possible. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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23. Two new early instrumental records of air pressure and temperature for the southern European Alps.
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Brugnara, Yuri, Horn, Michael, and Salvador, Isabella
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ATMOSPHERIC temperature , *OPTICAL character recognition , *MACHINE learning , *NINETEENTH century , *QUALITY control - Abstract
Central Europe is among the regions with the largest availability of pre-industrial meteorological records. In the Alps, however, such records are relatively rare, especially in the southern slope. We recently found and digitized two new pressure and temperature series for the Alpine cities of Rovereto (1800--1839) and Bolzano/Bozen (1842--1849) covering together the FIrst half of the 19th century, a period characterized by large climate variability and important extreme events. The meteorological record of Rovereto, in particular, is the oldest available for the southeastern Alps. We used the shorter record of Bolzano/Bozen as a testbed for different digitization methods, namely citizen science and machine-learning based Optical Character Recognition. The data are converted to modern units, quality controlled, and homogenized. We also provide daily and monthly means together with an estimation of their uncertainty. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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24. Meteorological Series from Neuchâtel, Bern, and Gurzelen from the 18th Century
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Wyer, Vanessa, Brugnara, Yuri, Brönnimann, Stefan, and Brönnimann, S.
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910 Geography & travel - Published
- 2021
25. An updated global atmospheric paleo‐reanalysis covering the last 400 years.
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Valler, Veronika, Franke, Jörg, Brugnara, Yuri, and Brönnimann, Stefan
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GENERAL circulation model ,CLIMATE change ,COVARIANCE matrices ,CLIMATE extremes ,ESTIMATION theory - Abstract
Data assimilation techniques are becoming increasingly popular for climate reconstruction. They benefit from estimating past climate states from both observation information and from model simulations. The first monthly global paleo‐reanalysis (EKF400) was generated over the 1600 and 2005 time period, and it provides estimates of several atmospheric fields. Here we present a new, considerably improved version of EKF400 (EKF400v2). EKF400v2 uses atmospheric‐only general circulation model simulations with a greatly extended observational network of early instrumental temperature and pressure data, documentary evidences and tree‐ring width and density proxy records. Furthermore, new observation types such as monthly precipitation amounts, number of wet days and coral proxy records were also included in the assimilation. In the version 2 system, the assimilation process has undergone methodological improvements such as the background‐error covariance matrix is estimated with a blending technique of a time‐dependent and a climatological covariance matrices. In general, the applied modifications resulted in enhanced reconstruction skill compared to version 1, especially in precipitation, sea‐level pressure and other variables beside the mostly assimilated temperature data, which already had high quality in the previous version. Additionally, two case studies are presented to demonstrate the applicability of EKF400v2 to analyse past climate variations and extreme events, as well as to investigate large‐scale climate dynamics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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26. Influence of warming and atmospheric circulation changes on multidecadal European flood variability.
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Brönnimann, Stefan, Stucki, Peter, Franke, Jörg, Valler, Veronika, Brugnara, Yuri, Hand, Ralf, Slivinski, Laura C., Compo, Gilbert P., Sardeshmukh, Prashant D., Lang, Michel, and Schaefli, Bettina
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ATMOSPHERIC circulation ,HUMIDITY ,ATMOSPHERIC models ,ATLANTIC multidecadal oscillation ,WATER vapor ,FLOODS - Abstract
European flood frequency and intensity change on a multidecadal scale. Floods were more frequent in the 19th (central Europe) and early 20th century (western Europe) than during the mid-20th century and again more frequent since the 1970s. The causes of this variability are not well understood and the relation to climate change is unclear. Palaeoclimate studies from the northern Alps suggest that past flood-rich periods coincided with cold periods. In contrast, some studies suggest that more floods might occur in a future, warming world. Here we address the contribution of atmospheric circulation and of warming to multidecadal flood variability. For this, we use long series of annual peak streamflow, daily weather data, reanalyses, and reconstructions. We show that both changes in atmospheric circulation and moisture content affected multidecadal changes of annual peak streamflow in central and western Europe over the past two centuries. We find that during the 19th and early 20th century, atmospheric circulation changes led to high peak values of moisture flux convergence. The circulation was more conducive to strong and long-lasting precipitation events than in the mid-20th century. These changes are also partly reflected in the seasonal mean circulation and reproduced in atmospheric model simulations, pointing to a possible role of oceanic variability. For the period after 1980, increasing moisture content in a warming atmosphere led to extremely high moisture flux convergence. Thus, the main atmospheric driver of flood variability changed from atmospheric circulation variability to water vapour increase. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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27. Two Meteorological Series from Herisau, 1821–1844
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Weber, Jonas, Brugnara, Yuri, Brönnimann, Stefan, and Brönnimann, Stefan
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910 Geography & travel - Published
- 2020
28. The Meteorological Record from St. Gall, 1812–1853
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Hürzeler, André, Brugnara, Yuri, and Brönnimann, Stefan
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910 Geography & travel - Published
- 2020
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29. Instruments, Procedures, Processing, and Analyses
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Brugnara, Yuri, Flückiger, Julian, and Brönnimann, Stefan
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910 Geography & travel - Published
- 2020
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30. A Collection of Early Swiss Meteorological Series
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Brönnimann, Stefan, Rohr, Christian, Brugnara, Yuri, and Isotta, Francesco Alessandro
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910 Geography & travel - Published
- 2020
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31. Two Meteorological Series from Bern from Trechsel, 1826–1849, and Benoit, 1837–1853
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Flückiger, Julian, Burgdorf, Angela-Maria, Brugnara, Yuri, and Brönnimann, Stefan
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910 Geography & travel - Published
- 2020
32. Two Meteorological Series from Geneva, 1782–1791
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Häderli, Stefan, Pfister, Stephanie, Villiger, Leonie, Brugnara, Yuri, and Brönnimann, Stefan
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910 Geography & travel - Published
- 2020
33. The Series from Geneva, 1799–1863
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Brönnimann, Stefan, Bühler, Marcel, and Brugnara, Yuri
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910 Geography & travel - Published
- 2020
34. Influence of Warming and Atmospheric Circulation Changes on Multidecadal European Flood Variability.
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Brönnimann, Stefan, Stucki, Peter, Franke, Jörg, Valler, Veronika, Brugnara, Yuri, Hand, Ralf, Slivinski, Laura C., Compo, Gilbert P., Sardeshmukh, Prashant D., Lang, Michel, and Schaefli, Bettina
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European flood frequency and intensity change on a multidecadal scale. Floods were more frequent in the 19
th (Central Europe) and early 20th century (Western Europe) than during the mid-20th century and again more frequent since the 1970s. The causes of this variability are not well understood and the relation to climate change is unclear. Palaeoclimate studies from the northern Alps suggest that past flood-rich periods coincided with cold periods. In contrast, some studies suggest that more floods might occur in a future, warming world. Here we reconcile the apparent contradiction by addressing and quantifying the contribution of atmospheric processes to multidecadal flood variability. For this, we use long series of annual peak streamflow, daily weather data, reanalyses, and reconstructions. We show that both changes in atmospheric circulation and moisture content affected multidecadal changes of annual peak streamflow in Central and Western Europe over the past two centuries. We find that during the 19th and early 20th century, atmospheric circulation changes led to high peak values of moisture flux convergence. The circulation was more conducive to strong and long-lasting precipitation events than in the mid-20th century. These changes are also partly reflected in the seasonal mean circulation and reproduced in atmospheric model simulations, pointing to a possible role of oceanic variability. For the period after 1980, increasing moisture content in a warming atmosphere led to extremely high moisture flux convergence. Thus, the main atmospheric driver of flood variability changed from atmospheric circulation variability to water vapour increase. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]- Published
- 2021
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35. Unlocking weather observations from the Societas Meteorologica Palatina (1781–1792).
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Pappert, Duncan, Brugnara, Yuri, Jourdain, Sylvie, Pospieszyńska, Aleksandra, Przybylak, Rajmund, Rohr, Christian, and Brönnimann, Stefan
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CLIMATE change ,CLIMATE research ,WEATHER ,SOCIETAL reaction ,PRESSURE measurement - Abstract
In recent years, instrumental observations have become increasingly important in climate research, allowing past daily-to-decadal climate variability and weather extremes to be explored in greater detail. The 18th century saw the formation of several short-lived meteorological networks of which the one organised by the Societas Meteorologica Palatina is arguably the most well known. This network stood out as one of the few that efficiently managed to control its members, integrating, refining, and publishing measurements taken from numerous stations around Europe and beyond. Although much has been written about the network in both history, science, and individual prominent series used for climatological studies, the actual measurements have not yet been digitised and published in extenso. This paper represents an important step towards filling this perceived gap in research. Here, we provide an inventory listing the availability of observed variables for the 37 stations that belonged to the society's network and discuss their historical context. Most of these observations have been digitised, and a considerable fraction has been converted and formatted. In this paper, we focus on the temperature and pressure measurements, which have been corrected and homogenised. We then demonstrate their potential for climate research by analysing two cases of extreme weather. The recovered series will have wide applications and could contribute to a better understanding of the mechanisms behind climatic variations and extremes as well as the societal reactions to adverse weather. Even the shorter series could be ingested into reanalyses and improve the quality of large-scale reconstructions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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36. Eritrean central‐highland precipitation and associations with sea‐surface temperature and atmospheric circulation.
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Fessehaye, Mussie, Brugnara, Yuri, Franke, Jörg, and Brönnimann, Stefan
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ATMOSPHERIC circulation , *ATMOSPHERIC temperature , *WALKER circulation , *WESTERLIES , *SEASONS , *TELECONNECTIONS (Climatology) - Abstract
This study explores the teleconnection between the boreal summer precipitation for the central highlands of Eritrea, with respect to global sea‐surface temperature (SST) and atmospheric parameters (winds, pressure, humidity, and vertical velocity) as indirect indicators of atmospheric circulation. The central‐highland summer (Jul–Aug) precipitation (1914–2015) is significantly negatively correlated with the Atlantic Niño (ATL3) index. Similarly, with a 2‐month (May) or 1‐month lead (Jun), SSTs over the equatorial Atlantic (Gulf of Guinea) are inversely correlated with the central‐highland summer precipitation. Moreover, the regional atmospheric circulation reveals that the boreal summer precipitation series has a significant positive correlation with the westerly wind over the Gulf of Guinea at 700 hPa and a negative correlation with the Tropical Easterly Jet (TEJ) at 200 hPa. Overall, these findings depict the African Walker circulation cell, whereby a low‐level westerly wind flows from the Gulf of Guinea across central Africa, coupled with a rising branch over north‐eastern Africa, and reverses as an easterly wind at a higher level. These significant correlations between Atlantic Ocean SST as the precipitation‐driving factor enabled the development and validation of an area‐specific seasonal precipitation prediction model, as precipitation in this region is temporally and spatially highly variable. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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37. Early instrumental meteorological measurements in Switzerland
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Pfister, Lucas, Hupfer, Franziska, Brugnara, Yuri, Munz, Lukas, Villiger, Leonie, Meyer, Lukas, Schwander, Mikhaël, Isotta, Francesco Alessandro, Rohr, Christian, and Brönnimann, Stefan
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The decadal variability of weather and its extremes are still poorly understood. This is partly due to the scarcity of records, which, for many parts of the world, only allow for studies of 20th century weather. However, the 18th and early 19th centuries saw some pronounced climatic variations, with equally pronounced impacts on the environment and society. Considerable amounts of weather data are available even for that time but have not yet been digitised. Given recent progress in the quantitative reconstruction of subdaily weather, such data could form the basis of weather reconstructions. In Switzerland, measurements before 1864 (the start of the national network) have never been systematically compiled except for three prominent series (Geneva, Basel, Great St. Bernard Pass). Here we provide an overview of early instrumental meteorological measurements in Switzerland resulting from an archive survey. Our inventory encompasses 334 entries from 206 locations, providing an estimated 3640 station years and reaching back to the early 18th century. Most of the data sheets have been photographed and a considerable fraction is undergoing digitisation. This paper accompanies the online publication of the imaged data series and metadata. We provide a detailed inventory of the series, discuss their historical context, and provide the photographed data sheets. We demonstrate their usefulness on behalf of two historical cases and show how they complement the existing series in Europe. If similar searches in other countries yield similarly rich results, an extension of daily weather reconstructions for Europe back to the 1760s is possible.
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- 2019
38. Best Practice Guidelines for Climate Data Rescue v1, of the Copernicus Climate Change Service Data Rescue Service
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Wilkinson, Clive, Brönnimann, Stefan, Jourdain, Sylvie, Roucaute, Emeline, Crouthamel, Rick, Brohan, Philip, Valente, Antonia, Brugnara, Yuri, Brunet, Manola, Compo, Gilbert P., and Gilabert, Alba
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910 Geography & travel - Published
- 2019
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39. Homogenization of daily ECA&D temperature series
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Squintu, Antonello Angelo, Van Der Schrier, Gerard, Brugnara, Yuri, and Klein Tank, Albert
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910 Geography & travel - Published
- 2018
40. Intercomparisons, error assessments, and technical information on historical upper-air measurements.
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Imfeld, Noemi, Haimberger, Leopold, Sterin, Alexander, Brugnara, Yuri, and Brönnimann, Stefan
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TECHNICAL information ,METEOROLOGY ,HISTORICAL errors ,PANGAEA (Supercontinent) ,ACQUISITION of data ,METADATA - Abstract
Upper-air data form the backbone of weather analysis and reanalysis products, particularly in the pre-satellite era. However, they are particularly prone to errors and uncertainties, especially data from the early days of aerology. Information that allows us to better characterize the errors of radiosonde data is important. This paper reports on an attempt to collect data from historical upper-air intercomparisons and from historical error assessments reaching back to the 1930s. The digitized numerical data will be made available through Copernicus Climate Change Services; here we publish the full information that includes images, literature, and other metadata that may be relevant and can be used to inform homogenization approaches or reanalysis production. The data collection described in this paper is available on PANGAEA: 10.1594/PANGAEA.925860 (Imfeld et al., 2021). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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41. Quality Analysis and Classification of Data Series from the Swiss Phenology Network
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Auchmann, Renate, Brugnara, Yuri, Rutishauser, This, Brönnimann, Stefan, Gehrig, Regula, Pietragalla, Barbara, Begert, Michael, Sigg, Christian, Knechtl, Valentin, Calpini, Bertrand, and Konzelmann, Thomas
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020 Library & information sciences ,910 Geography & travel - Published
- 2018
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42. Reanalysis sheds lights on 1916 avalanche disaster
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Zamuriano Carbajal, Juan Marcelo, Segesser, Daniel Marc, Brönnimann, Stefan, Brugnara, Yuri, Rohr, Christian, and Schild, Jonas
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300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology ,940 History of Europe ,570 Life sciences ,biology ,910 Geography & travel ,900 History - Abstract
One of the worst meteorological disasters in history took place in the southeastern Alps during the infamous winter of 1916/17. Avalanches following a massive snowfall event killed thousands of soldiers as well as civilians. Today’s numerical techniques open up new possibilities to study this historical event. Combining historical measurements with reanalyses and dynamical downscaling makes it possible to reconstruct weather even down to local scales and thus to the scale captured by historical documents on weather impacts.
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- 2017
43. Reconstruction of Central European daily weather types back to 1763
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Rohrer, Marco, Auchmann, Renate, Schwander, Mikhaël, Brönnimann, Stefan, Delaygue, Gilles, and Brugnara, Yuri
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910 Geography & travel - Published
- 2017
44. A monthly global paleo-reanalysis of the atmosphere from 1600 to 2005 for studying past climatic variations
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Franke, Jörg, Brönnimann, Stefan, Bhend, Jonas, and Brugnara, Yuri
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Statistics and Probability ,910 Geography & travel ,Library and Information Sciences ,Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty ,Computer Science Applications ,Education ,Information Systems - Published
- 2017
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45. Early instrumental meteorological observations in Switzerland: 1708–1873.
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Brugnara, Yuri, Pfister, Lucas, Villiger, Leonie, Rohr, Christian, Isotta, Francesco Alessandro, and Brönnimann, Stefan
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METEOROLOGICAL observations , *EIGHTEENTH century , *NINETEENTH century - 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 10.1594/PANGAEA.909141. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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46. Assimilating monthly precipitation data in a paleoclimate data assimilation framework.
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Valler, Veronika, Brugnara, Yuri, Franke, Jörg, and Brönnimann, Stefan
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METEOROLOGICAL instruments ,GAUSSIAN distribution ,KALMAN filtering ,ATMOSPHERIC models ,INFORMATION resources - Abstract
Data assimilation approaches such as the ensemble Kalman filter method have become an important technique for paleoclimatological reconstructions and reanalysis. Different sources of information, from proxy records and documentary data to instrumental measurements, were assimilated in previous studies to reconstruct past climate fields. However, precipitation reconstructions are often based on indirect sources (e.g., proxy records). Assimilating precipitation measurements is a challenging task because they have high uncertainties, often represent only a small region, and generally do not follow a Gaussian distribution. In this paper, experiments are conducted to test the possibility of using information about precipitation in climate reconstruction with monthly resolution by assimilating monthly instrumental precipitation amounts or the number of wet days per month, solely or in addition to other climate variables such as temperature and sea-level pressure, into an ensemble of climate model simulations. The skill of all variables (temperature, precipitation, sea-level pressure) improved over the pure model simulations when only monthly precipitation amounts were assimilated. Assimilating the number of wet days resulted in similar or better skill compared to assimilating the precipitation amount. The experiments with different types of instrumental observations being assimilated indicate that precipitation data can be useful, particularly if no other variable is available from a given region. Overall the experiments show promising results because with the assimilation of precipitation information a new data source can be exploited for climate reconstructions. The wet day records can become an especially important data source in future climate reconstructions because many existing records date several centuries back in time and are not limited by the availability of meteorological instruments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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47. A note on air temperature and precipitation variability and extremes over Asmara: 1914–2015.
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Fessehaye, Mussie, Brugnara, Yuri, Savage, Michael J., and Brönnimann, Stefan
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PRECIPITATION variability , *ATMOSPHERIC temperature , *CLIMATE change , *STANDARD deviations , *MAXIMA & minima , *CLIMATE extremes - Abstract
Meteorological series (daily precipitation, minimum and maximum air temperature) for Asmara (Eritrea) for the last 100 years (1914–2015) are analysed. The data were quality‐controlled and homogenized using publicly available data from surrounding countries as well as newly recovered data from 12 stations in Eritrea. Overall, the Asmara data showed a consistent pattern and there were no outliers outside of four standard deviations from the corresponding reference. Climate indices were calculated using the program RClimDex. Overall, 8 indices for description of the air temperature data and 10 for precipitation data were calculated. The analyses of averages and indices reveal large climatic variations in the central highlands of Eritrea. The results indicate significant changes in air temperature since 1943, with daily minimum and maximum air temperature increasing at a similar rate of 0.22 and 0.19°C/decade, respectively. The diurnal air temperature range shows a non‐significant decreasing trend over the study period. No significant variation was found in the annual total and the seasonal precipitation over the last century. Significant trends were detected for some daily precipitation indices, although the lack of reference series prevents an evaluation of their reliability. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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48. The EUSTACE global land station daily air temperature dataset.
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Brugnara, Yuri, Good, Elizabeth, Squintu, Antonello A., Schrier, Gerard, and Brönnimann, Stefan
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ATMOSPHERIC temperature , *WATER temperature , *SURFACE temperature , *MAXIMA & minima , *TEMPERATURE measurements - Abstract
We describe a global dataset of quality‐controlled in situ daily air temperature observations covering the period 1850–2015, developed in the framework of the EUSTACE (EU Surface Temperature for All Corners of Earth) project (www.eustaceproject.org). The dataset includes a total of 35,364 daily series of maximum and minimum temperature obtained from seven different collections. About 97% of the series are publicly available in a common format, while the remaining 3% can be obtained from the original data providers. Unlike other similar products, duplicates have been removed without blending of series, which simplifies data traceability and improves the temporal homogeneity of the individual series at the cost of a smaller average length. Residual artificial signals (breakpoints) in the series caused by station relocations, changes in instrumentation, etc., have been detected by means of the combination of four breakpoint detection tests, four variables and three temporal aggregations. The combined results give not only the most probable position of the breakpoints, but also a measure of their likelihood. The reliability of the detection was estimated for each year of each target series, based on the number of reference series and on their correlation with the target series. Moreover, its general performance was evaluated through a benchmark of synthetic series. This product will be combined with datasets of marine and ice in situ air temperature observations and with measurements from satellite to produce the first complete global statistical reconstruction of daily near‐surface air temperature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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49. The BernClim plant phenological data set from the canton of Bern (Switzerland) 1970–2018.
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Rutishauser, This, Jeanneret, François, Brügger, Robert, Brugnara, Yuri, Röthlisberger, Christian, Bernasconi, August, Bangerter, Peter, Portenier, Céline, Villiger, Leonie, Lehmann, Daria, Meyer, Lukas, Messerli, Bruno, and Brönnimann, Stefan
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CRABAPPLES ,FARM management ,APPLES ,EUROPEAN beech ,COMMON dandelion ,BEECH - Abstract
In 1970, the Institute of Geography of the University of Bern initiated the phenological observation network BernClim. Seasonality information from plants, fog and snow was originally available for applications in urban and regional planning and agricultural and touristic suitability and is now a valuable data set for climate change impact studies. Covering the growing season, volunteer observers record the dates of key development stages of hazel (Corylus avellana), dandelion (Taraxacum officinale), apple tree (Pyrus malus) and beech (Fagus sylvatica). All observations consist of detailed site information, including location, altitude, exposition (aspect) and inclination, that makes BernClim unique in its richness in detail on decadal timescales. Quality control (QC) by experts and statistical analyses of the data have been performed to flag impossible dates, dates outside the biologically plausible range, repeated dates in the same year, stretches of consecutive identical dates and statistically inconsistent dates (outliers in time or in space). Here, we report BernClim data of 7414 plant phenological observations from 1970 to 2018 from 1304 sites at 110 stations, the QC procedure and selected applications (Rutishauser et al., 2019: 10.1594/PANGAEA.900102). The QC points to very good internal consistency (only 0.2 % were flagged as internally inconsistent) and likely high quality of the data. BernClim data indicate a trend towards an extended growing season. They also track the regime shift in the late 1980s well to pronounced earlier dates like numerous other phenological records across the Northern Hemisphere. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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50. Dezember 1916: Weisser Tod im Ersten Weltkrieg
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Brugnara, Yuri, Brönnimann, Stefan, Zamuriano Carbajal, Juan Marcelo, Schild, Jonas, Rohr, Christian, and Segesser, Daniel Marc
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300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology ,570 Life sciences ,biology ,910 Geography & travel ,900 History - Published
- 2016
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