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| Titel |
A collection of sub-daily pressure and temperature observations for the early instrumental period with a focus on the "year without a summer" 1816 |
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Y. Brugnara, R. Auchmann, S. Brönnimann, R. J. Allan, I. Auer, M. Barriendos, H. Bergström, J. Bhend, R. Brázdil, G. P. Compo, R. C. Cornes, F. Domínguez-Castro, A. F. V. van Engelen, J. Filipiak, J. Holopainen, S. Jourdain, M. Kunz, J. Luterbacher, M. Maugeri, L. Mercalli, A. Moberg, C. J. Mock, G. Pichard, L. Řezníčková, G. van der Schrier, V. Slonosky, Z. Ustrnul, M. A. Valente, A. Wypych, X. Yin |
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Artikel
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Englisch
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1814-9324
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In: Climate of the Past ; 11, no. 8 ; Nr. 11, no. 8 (2015-08-06), S.1027-1047 |
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250117386
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| Publikation (Nr.) |
 copernicus.org/cp-11-1027-2015.pdf |
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| Zusammenfassung |
| The eruption of Mount Tambora (Indonesia) in April 1815 is the largest
documented volcanic eruption in history. It is associated with a large global
cooling during the following year, felt particularly in parts of Europe and
North America, where the year 1816 became known as the "year without a
summer". This paper describes an effort made to collect surface
meteorological observations from the early instrumental period, with a focus
on the years of and immediately following the eruption (1815–1817). Although
the collection aimed in particular at pressure observations, correspondent
temperature observations were also recovered. Some of the series had already
been described in the literature, but a large part of the data, recently
digitised from original weather diaries and contemporary magazines and
newspapers, is presented here for the first time. The collection puts
together more than 50 sub-daily series from land observatories in Europe
and North America and from ships in the tropics. The pressure observations
have been corrected for temperature and gravity and reduced to mean sea
level. Moreover, an additional statistical correction was applied to take into
account common error sources in mercury barometers. To assess the reliability
of the corrected data set, the variance in the pressure observations is
compared with modern climatologies, and single observations are used for
synoptic analyses of three case studies in Europe. All raw observations will
be made available to the scientific community in the International Surface
Pressure Databank. |
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