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DOCU-CLIM: A global documentary climate dataset for climate reconstructions.

ABSTRACT: Documentary climate data describe evidence of past climate arising from predominantly written historical documents such as diaries, chronicles, newspapers, or logbooks. Over the past decades, historians and climatologists have generated numerous document-based time series of local and regional climates. However, a global dataset of documentary climate time series has never been compiled, and documentary data are rarely used in large-scale climate reconstructions. Here, we present the first global multi-variable collection of documentary climate records. The dataset DOCU-CLIM comprises 621 time series (both published and hitherto unpublished) providing information on historical variations in temperature, precipitation, and wind regime. The series are evaluated by formulating proxy forward models (i.e., predicting the documentary observations from climate fields) in an overlapping period. Results show strong correlations, particularly for the temperature-sensitive series. Correlations are somewhat lower for precipitation-sensitive series. Overall, we ascribe considerable potential to documentary records as climate data, especially in regions and seasons not well represented by early instrumental data and palaeoclimate proxies.

SUBMITTER: Burgdorf AM

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10290071 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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DOCU-CLIM: A global documentary climate dataset for climate reconstructions.

Burgdorf Angela-Maria AM Brönnimann Stefan S Adamson George G Amano Tatsuya T Aono Yasuyuki Y Barriopedro David D Bullón Teresa T Camenisch Chantal C Camuffo Dario D Daux Valérie V Del Rosario Prieto María M Dobrovolný Petr P Gallego David D García-Herrera Ricardo R Gergis Joelle J Grab Stefan S Hannaford Matthew J MJ Holopainen Jari J Kelso Clare C Kern Zoltán Z Kiss Andrea A Kuan-Hui Lin Elaine E Loader Neil J NJ Možný Martin M Nash David D Nicholson Sharon E SE Pfister Christian C Rodrigo Fernando S FS Rutishauser This T Sharma Sapna S Takács Katalin K Vargas Ernesto T ET Vega Inmaculada I

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Documentary climate data describe evidence of past climate arising from predominantly written historical documents such as diaries, chronicles, newspapers, or logbooks. Over the past decades, historians and climatologists have generated numerous document-based time series of local and regional climates. However, a global dataset of documentary climate time series has never been compiled, and documentary data are rarely used in large-scale climate reconstructions. Here, we present the first globa ...[more]

PMID: 37353567

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DOCU-CLIM: A global documentary climate dataset for climate reconstructions.

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DOCU-CLIM: A global documentary climate dataset for climate reconstructions.

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