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https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-1179-2020
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https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-1179-2020
© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
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the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Data description paper
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20 May 2020
Data description paper |
| 20 May 2020
| 20 May 2020
Early instrumental meteorological observations in Switzerland: 1708–1873
Yuri Brugnara
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Institute of Geography, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Lucas Pfister
Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Institute of Geography, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Leonie Villiger
Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Institute of Geography, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Christian Rohr
Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Institute of History, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Francesco Alessandro Isotta
Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology MeteoSwiss, Zurich, Switzerland
Stefan Brönnimann
Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Institute of Geography, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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- Chapter 7. The heat of the Earth R. Howarth 10.1144/M60-2022-32
- Extreme springs in Switzerland since 1763 in climate and phenological indices N. Imfeld et al. 10.5194/cp-20-659-2024
- The weather diaries of the Kirch family: Leipzig, Guben, and Berlin (1677–1774) S. Brönnimann & Y. Brugnara 10.5194/cp-19-1435-2023
- From time frames to temperature bias in temperature series D. Camuffo et al. 10.1007/s10584-021-03065-5
- From climate to weather reconstructions S. Brönnimann & X. Wang 10.1371/journal.pclm.0000034
- The global historical climate database HCLIM E. Lundstad et al. 10.1038/s41597-022-01919-w
- Multiproxy tree ring reconstruction of glacier mass balance: insights from Pinus cembra trees growing near Silvretta Glacier (Swiss Alps) J. Lopez-Saez et al. 10.5194/cp-20-1251-2024
- Key problems in early wine-spirit thermometers and the “true Réaumur” thermometer D. Camuffo 10.1007/s10584-020-02910-3
- Evaluation of the Homogenization Adjustments Applied to European Temperature Records in the Global Historical Climatology Network Dataset P. O’Neill et al. 10.3390/atmos13020285
- Historical Observations for Improving Reanalyses S. Brönnimann 10.3389/fclim.2022.880473
- Pre-industrial temperature variability on the Swiss Plateau derived from the instrumental daily series of Bern and Zurich Y. Brugnara et al. 10.5194/cp-18-2357-2022
- Unlocking weather observations from the Societas Meteorologica Palatina (1781–1792) D. Pappert et al. 10.5194/cp-17-2361-2021
- Early temperature records from a Norwegian coastal farm (1880–1930) A. Nerheim 10.3389/fclim.2025.1495611
- A 258-year-long data set of temperature and precipitation fields for Switzerland since 1763 N. Imfeld et al. 10.5194/cp-19-703-2023
- Synthetic weather diaries: concept and application to Swiss weather in 1816 S. Brönnimann 10.5194/cp-16-1937-2020
- Gap Filling and Quality Control Applied to Meteorological Variables Measured in the Northeast Region of Brazil R. Costa et al. 10.3390/atmos12101278
- Dynamical downscaling and data assimilation for a cold-air outbreak in the European Alps during the Year Without a Summer of 1816 P. Stucki et al. 10.5194/cp-20-2327-2024
- Statistical reconstruction of daily temperature and sea level pressure in Europe for the severe winter 1788/89 D. Pappert et al. 10.5194/cp-18-2545-2022
- New perspectives on historical climatology S. White et al. 10.1002/wcc.808
- Earliest meteorological readings in San Fernando (Cádiz, Spain, 1799–1813) N. Bravo-Paredes et al. 10.5194/cp-19-1397-2023
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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.
Early instrumental meteorological observations in Switzerland made before 1863, the year a...
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