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Articles | Volume 12, issue 2
Articles | Volume 12, issue 2
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 12, 1179–1190, 2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-1179-2020
© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 12, 1179–1190, 2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-1179-2020
© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 12, issue 2

Data description paper 20 May 2020

Data description paper | 20 May 2020

Early instrumental meteorological observations in Switzerland: 1708–1873

Yuri Brugnara et al.

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Swiss Early Meteorological Observations Y. Brugnara https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.909141

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Early instrumental meteorological observations in Switzerland made before 1863, the year a national station network was created, were until recently largely unexplored. After a systematic compilation of the documents available in Swiss archives, we digitised a large part of the data so that they can be used in climate research. In this paper we give an overview of the development of meteorological observations in Switzerland and describe our approach to convert them into modern units.
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