A collection of sub-daily pressure and temperature observations
for the early instrumental period with a focus on the “year
without a summer” 1816

J 2015

A collection of sub-daily pressure and temperature observations for the early instrumental period with a focus on the “year without a summer” 1816

BRUGNARA, Y., R. AUCHMANN, S. BRÖNNIMANN, R.J. ALLAN, I. AUER et. al.

Basic information

Original name

A collection of sub-daily pressure and temperature observations for the early instrumental period with a focus on the “year without a summer” 1816

Authors

BRUGNARA, Y. (756 Switzerland), R. AUCHMANN (756 Switzerland), S. BRÖNNIMANN (756 Switzerland), R.J. ALLAN (826 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland), I. AUER (40 Austria), M. BARRIENDOS (724 Spain), H. BERGSTRÖM (752 Sweden), J. BHEND (756 Switzerland), Rudolf BRÁZDIL (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution), G.P. COMPO (840 United States of America), R.C. CORNES (826 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland), F. DOMINGUEZ-CASTRO (724 Spain), A.F.V. VAN ENGELEN (528 Netherlands), J. FILIPIAK (616 Poland), J. HOLOPAINEN (246 Finland), S. JOURDAIN (250 France), M. KUNZ (276 Germany), J. LUTERBACHER (276 Germany), M. MAUGERI (380 Italy), L. MERCALLI (380 Italy), A. MOBERG (752 Sweden), C.J. MOCK (840 United States of America), G. PICHARD (250 France), Ladislava ŘEZNÍČKOVÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), G. VAN DER SCHRIER (528 Netherlands), V. SLONOSKY (124 Canada), Z. USTRNUL (616 Poland), M.A. VALENTE (620 Portugal), A. WYPYCH (616 Poland) and X. YIN (840 United States of America)

Edition

Climate of the Past, 2015, 1814-9324

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

10500 1.5. Earth and related environmental sciences

Country of publisher

Germany

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Impact factor

Impact factor: 3.638

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14310/15:00081159

Organization unit

Faculty of Science

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/cp-11-1027-2015

UT WoS

000360642800001

Keywords in English

1816; year without a summer; air pressure; air temperature; Tambora

Abstract

V originále

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 také 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.

Links

GAP209/11/0956, research and development project

Name: Globální a regionální modelové simulace klimatu ve střední Evropě v 18.-20. století v porovnání s pozorovaným a rekonstruovaným klimatem

Investor: Czech Science Foundation

Citovat

BRUGNARA, Y., R. AUCHMANN, S. BRÖNNIMANN, R.J. ALLAN, I. AUER, M. BARRIENDOS, H. BERGSTRÖM, J. BHEND, Rudolf BRÁZDIL, G.P. COMPO, R.C. CORNES, F. DOMINGUEZ-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, Ladislava ŘEZNÍČKOVÁ, G. VAN DER SCHRIER, V. SLONOSKY, Z. USTRNUL, M.A. VALENTE, A. WYPYCH and X. YIN. A collection of sub-daily pressure and temperature observations for the early instrumental period with a focus on the “year without a summer” 1816. Climate of the Past. 2015, vol. 11, No 8, p. 1027-1047. ISSN 1814-9324. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.5194/cp-11-1027-2015.

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BRUGNARA, Y., R. AUCHMANN, S. BRÖNNIMANN, R.J. ALLAN, I. AUER, M. BARRIENDOS, H. BERGSTRÖM, J. BHEND, Rudolf BRÁZDIL, G.P. COMPO, R.C. CORNES, F. DOMINGUEZ-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, Ladislava ŘEZNÍČKOVÁ, G. VAN DER SCHRIER, V. SLONOSKY, Z. USTRNUL, M.A. VALENTE, A. WYPYCH and X. YIN. A collection of sub-daily pressure and temperature observations for the early instrumental period with a focus on the “year without a summer” 1816. \textit{Climate of the Past}. 2015, vol.~11, No~8, p.~1027-1047. ISSN~1814-9324. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.5194/cp-11-1027-2015.

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