TY - JOUR
T1 - DOCU-CLIM
T2 - A global documentary climate dataset for climate reconstructions
AU - Burgdorf, Angela Maria
AU - Brönnimann, Stefan
AU - Adamson, George
AU - Amano, Tatsuya
AU - Aono, Yasuyuki
AU - Barriopedro, David
AU - Bullón, Teresa
AU - Camenisch, Chantal
AU - Camuffo, Dario
AU - Daux, Valérie
AU - del Rosario Prieto, María
AU - Dobrovolný, Petr
AU - Gallego, David
AU - García-Herrera, Ricardo
AU - Gergis, Joelle
AU - Grab, Stefan
AU - Hannaford, Matthew J.
AU - Holopainen, Jari
AU - Kelso, Clare
AU - Kern, Zoltán
AU - Kiss, Andrea
AU - Kuan-Hui Lin, Elaine
AU - Loader, Neil J.
AU - Možný, Martin
AU - Nash, David
AU - Nicholson, Sharon E.
AU - Pfister, Christian
AU - Rodrigo, Fernando S.
AU - Rutishauser, This
AU - Sharma, Sapna
AU - Takács, Katalin
AU - Vargas, Ernesto T.
AU - Vega, Inmaculada
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023, The Author(s).
PY - 2023/12
Y1 - 2023/12
N2 - Documentary climate data describe evidence of past climate arising from predominantly written historical documents such as diaries, chronicles, newspapers, or logbooks.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 The dataset DOCU-CLIM comprises 621 time series (both published and hitherto unpublished) providing information on historical variations in temperature, precipitation, and wind regime.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.
AB - Documentary climate data describe evidence of past climate arising from predominantly written historical documents such as diaries, chronicles, newspapers, or logbooks.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.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85162838030
U2 - 10.1038/s41597-023-02303-y
DO - 10.1038/s41597-023-02303-y
M3 - Article
C2 - 37353567
AN - SCOPUS:85162838030
SN - 2052-4463
VL - 10
JO - Scientific data
JF - Scientific data
IS - 1
M1 - 402
ER -