Brugnara, Yuri (2022): Swiss Early Meteorological Observations v2.0 [dataset]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.948258
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Abstract:
A collection of early instrumental meteorological records for 46 locations in Switzerland and one in France covering the 18th and 19th century. Available variables are air temperature, pressure, precipitation, snow depth, snow/rain occurrence, humidity, wind force and direction, cloud cover, wet bulb temperature, water temperature, soil temperature, and weather description, for a total of ca. 5 million observations. Air temperature, pressure, and precipitation data (ca. 3 million observations) have been converted to modern units and quality controlled. Time has been converted to UTC.
Related to:
Brugnara, Yuri; Pfister, Lucas; Villiger, Leonie; Rohr, Christian; Isotta, Francesco Alessandro; Brönnimann, Stefan (2020): Early instrumental meteorological observations in Switzerland: 1708–1873. Earth System Science Data, 12(2), 1179-1190, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-1179-2020
Original version:
Brugnara, Yuri (2019): Swiss Early Meteorological Observations. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.909141
Funding:
European Research Council (ERC), grant/award no. 787574: A Palaeoreanalysis To Understand Decadal Climate Variability
Coverage:
Latitude: 46.800000 * Longitude: 8.230000
Event(s):
Comment:
This is a major update of and supersedes an existing dataset on PANGAEA (https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.909141).
The SEF folder contains a subset of processed data in a ready-to-use and well documented standard format. It is the core product. An inventory file is provided.
The RAW folder contains all raw data, which mostly require some additional processing and therefore will be interesting only for a minority of expert users. It also guarantees data transparency.
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Funding, Projects:
- Long Swiss meteorological series, https://www.geography.unibe.ch/research/climatology_group/research_projects/long_swiss_meteorological_series/index_eng.html, funded by MeteoSwiss
- CHIMES, https://www.geography.unibe.ch/research/climatology_group/research_projects/chimes/index_eng.html, Award: SNSF 169676
- REUSE, https://www.geography.unibe.ch/research/climatology_group/research_projects/reuse/index_eng.html, Award: SNSF 162668
- PALAEO-RA, https://www.palaeo-ra.unibe.ch, Award: H2020 ERC 787574
Parameter(s):
| # | Name | Short Name | Unit | Principal Investigator | Method/Device | Comment |
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| 1 | Binary Object | Binary | Brugnara, Yuri | |||
| 2 | File content | Content | Brugnara, Yuri |
License:
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY-4.0)
Status:
Curation Level: Basic curation (CurationLevelB)
Size:
8 data points
Data
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| 1 Binary | 2 Content |
|---|---|
| readme.txt | Description of the content of the other files. |
| RAW.zip | Raw data files |
| SEF.zip | Data provided in the Station Exchange Format (SEF) |
| SEF_inventory.csv | Lists the SEF files in "SEF.zip", including meta information. |