Rescuing historical weather observations improves quantification of severe windstorm risks

E Hawkins, P Brohan, SN Burgess… - … hazards and earth …, 2023 - nhess.copernicus.org
Billions of historical climatological observations remain unavailable to science as they exist
only on paper, stored in numerous archives around the world. The conversion of these data …

Artifacts in century‐length atmospheric and coupled reanalyses over Antarctica due to historical data availability

DP Schneider, RL Fogt - Geophysical Research Letters, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Enabled by advances in data assimilation and the digitization of historical observations,
atmospheric reanalysis products that span the entire twentieth century provide valuable …

German Bight storm activity, 1897–2018

D Krieger, O Krueger, F Feser, R Weisse… - International Journal …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
This study investigates the evolution of German Bight (southeastern North Sea) storminess
from 1897 to 2018 through analysing upper quantiles of geostrophic wind speeds, which act …

Northern Hemisphere land monsoon precipitation changes in the twentieth century revealed by multiple reanalysis datasets

X Huang, T Zhou, W Zhang, J Jiang, P Li, Y Zhao - Climate Dynamics, 2019 - Springer
Observations are required to understand monsoon changes over time. Reanalyses are
useful supplements to observations; however, their ability to reveal long-term monsoon …

Rescue and quality control of sub-daily meteorological data collected at Montevergine Observatory (Southern Apennines), 1884–1963

V Capozzi, Y Cotroneo, P Castagno… - Earth System …, 2020 - essd.copernicus.org
Here we present the rescue of sub-daily meteorological observations collected from 1884 to
1963 at Montevergine Observatory, located on the Italian Southern Apennines. The …

Global historical reanalysis with a 60-km AGCM and surface pressure observations: OCADA

M Ishii, H Kamahori, H Kubota, M Zaiki… - Journal of the …, 2024 - jstage.jst.go.jp
A historical atmospheric reanalysis from 1850 to 2015 was performed using an atmospheric
general circulation model assimilating surface pressure observations archived in …

Digitizing observations from the 1861–1875 Met Office Daily Weather Reports using citizen scientist volunteers

PM Craig, E Hawkins - Geoscience Data Journal, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
We describe the transcription and quality control processes for rescuing around 570,000 sub‐
daily and daily weather observations which were recorded in the UK Met Office Daily …

Millions of digitized historical sea‐level pressure observations rediscovered

E Hawkins, LV Alexander, RJ Allan - 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Millions of sub‐daily sea‐level pressure observations taken between 1919 and 1960 over
the British and Irish Isles were transcribed from paper records in the early 2000s but were …

[HTML][HTML] Rescuing historical weather observations improves quantification of severe windstorm risks

E Hawkins, P Brohan, S Burgess, S Burt… - …, 2022 - egusphere.copernicus.org
Billions of historical climatological observations remain unavailable to science as they exist
only on paper, stored in numerous archives around the world. The conversion of these data …

Dynamical downscaling and data assimilation for a cold-air outbreak in the European Alps during the Year Without a Summer of 1816

P Stucki, L Pfister, Y Brugnara, R Varga, C Hari… - Climate of the …, 2024 - cp.copernicus.org
Abstract The “Year Without a Summer” in 1816 was characterized by extraordinarily cold
and wet periods in central Europe, and it was associated with severe crop failures, famine …