Early instrumental meteorological observations in Switzerland: 1708–1873

Brugnara, Yuri; Pfister, Lucas; Villiger, Leonie; Rohr, Christian; Isotta, Francesco Alessandro; Brönnimann, Stefan

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-1179-2020

Articles | Volume 12, issue 2

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-1179-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

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

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20 May 2020

Data description paper |

| 20 May 2020

Early instrumental meteorological observations in Switzerland: 1708–1873

Yuri Brugnara, Lucas Pfister, Leonie Villiger, Christian Rohr, Francesco Alessandro Isotta, and Stefan Brönnimann

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Short summary

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.