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DOI	10.5194/cp-15-1345-2019
	Early instrumental meteorological measurements in Switzerland
	Pfister L.; Hupfer F.; Brugnara Y.; Munz L.; Villiger L.; Meyer L.; Schwander M.; Alessandro Isotta F.; Rohr C.; Brönnimann S.
发表日期	2019
ISSN	18149324
起始页码	1345
结束页码	1361
卷号	15 期号:4
英文摘要	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. © 2019 Author(s).
语种	英语
scopus关键词	decadal variation; instrumentation; inventory; meteorology; reconstruction; Basel; Basel-Stadt; Europe; Geneva [Switzerland]; Switzerland
来源期刊	Climate of the Past
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/146796
作者单位	Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland; Institute of Geography, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland; Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology MeteoSwiss, Zurich, Switzerland; Institute of History, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Pfister L.,Hupfer F.,Brugnara Y.,et al. Early instrumental meteorological measurements in Switzerland[J],2019,15(4).
APA	Pfister L..,Hupfer F..,Brugnara Y..,Munz L..,Villiger L..,...&Brönnimann S..(2019).Early instrumental meteorological measurements in Switzerland.Climate of the Past,15(4).
MLA	Pfister L.,et al."Early instrumental meteorological measurements in Switzerland".Climate of the Past 15.4(2019).