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Manara, Veronica; Brunetti, Michele; Wild, Martin; Maugeri, Maurizio (2023): Annual and seasonal grid-point cloud cover anomaly series over Italy (1951-2018) [dataset bundled publication]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.955741

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Published: 2023-03-13 • DOI registered: 2023-04-11

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Abstract:
These datasets contain annual and seasonal anomaly series of total cloud cover over Italy. The anomaly series are expressed as additive anomalies with respect to the period 1961-1990. The series are gridded series with a resolution of 1° × 1°. They are obtained interpolating by means of an Inverse Distance Weighting approach a quality-checked and homogenized dataset of human observations of total cloud cover series over the 1951-2018 period and referred to 12 UTC.
Supplement to:
Manara, Veronica; Brunetti, Michele; Wild, Martin; Maugeri, Maurizio (2023): Variability and trends of the total cloud cover over Italy (1951–2018). Atmospheric Research, 285, 106625, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosres.2023.106625
Coverage:
Median Latitude: 42.184524 * Median Longitude: 12.139881 * South-bound Latitude: 37.000000 * West-bound Longitude: 7.000000 * North-bound Latitude: 47.000000 * East-bound Longitude: 18.000000
Date/Time Start: 1951-01-01T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 2018-12-01T00:00:00
Event(s):
CloudCA_Italy_Grid_1x1 * Latitude Start: 37.000000 * Longitude Start: 7.000000 * Latitude End: 47.000000 * Longitude End: 18.000000 * Date/Time Start: 1951-01-01T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 2018-12-01T00:00:00 * Method/Device: Visual observation
Comment:
This bundled publication contains datasets with the annual, winter, spring, summer, and autumn anomaly time series. Furthermore, dataset 'files' contains the same information, but as ASCII files with one line per year and one column per coordinate.
The seasons are defined as follows: spring (March, April, May), summer (June, July, August), autumn (September, October, November), winter (December of the previous year, January and February of the considered year). Following this definition, winter 1952 is the average of December 1951, January and February 1952. Similarly, the annual mean is December of the previous year, and January-November of the considered year.
Funded by Ministero dell'Università e della Ricerca of Italy, grant FSE – REACT EU, DM 10/08/2021 n. 1062.
License:
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY-4.0)
Size:
6 datasets

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Datasets listed in this bundled publication

  1. Manara, V; Brunetti, M; Wild, M et al. (2023): Annual cloud cover anomaly over Italy. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.955731
  2. Manara, V; Brunetti, M; Wild, M et al. (2023): Winter cloud cover anomaly over Italy. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.955732
  3. Manara, V; Brunetti, M; Wild, M et al. (2023): Spring cloud cover anomaly over Italy. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.955734
  4. Manara, V; Brunetti, M; Wild, M et al. (2023): Summer cloud cover anomaly over Italy. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.955735
  5. Manara, V; Brunetti, M; Wild, M et al. (2023): Autumn cloud cover anomaly over Italy. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.955736
  6. Manara, V; Brunetti, M; Wild, M et al. (2023): Annual and seasonal cloud cover anomaly over Italy - files. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.955740