HISTALP - historical instrumental climatological surface time series of the Greater Alpine Region Export

@article{auer_07_histalphistorical, abstract = {This paper describes the HISTALP database, consisting of monthly homogenised records of temperature, pressure, precipitation, sunshine and cloudiness for the 'Greater Alpine Region' (GAR, 4-19°E, 43-49°N, 0-3500m asl). The longest temperature and air pressure series extend back to 1760, precipitation to 1800, cloudiness to the 1840s and sunshine to the 1880s. A systematic QC procedure has been applied to the series and a high number of inhomogeneities (more than 2500) and outliers (more than 5000) have been detected and removed. The 557 HISTALP series are kept in different data modes: original and homogenised, gap-filled and outlier corrected station mode series, grid-1 series (anomaly fields at 1° × 1°, lat × long) and Coarse Resolution Subregional (CRS) mean series according to an EOF-based regionalisation. The leading climate variability features within the GAR are discussed through selected examples and a concluding linear trend analysis for 100, 50 and 25-year subperiods for the four horizontal and two altitudinal CRSs. Among the key findings of the trend analysis is the parallel centennial decrease/increase of both temperature and air pressure in the 19th/20th century. The 20th century increase (+1.2 °C/+ 1.1 hPa for annual GAR-means) evolved stepwise with a first peak near 1950 and the second increase (1.3 °C/0.6hPa per 25 years) starting in the 1970s. Centennial and decadal scale temperature trends were identical for all subregions. Air pressure, sunshine and cloudiness show significant differences between low versus high elevations. A long-term increase of the high-elevation series relative to the low-elevation series is given for sunshine and air pressure. Of special interest is the exceptional high correlation near 0.9 between the series on mean temperature and air pressure difference (high-minus low-elevation). This, further developed via some atmospheric statics and thermodynamics, allows the creation of ?barometric temperature series? without use of the measures of temperature. They support the measured temperature trends in the region. Precipitation shows the most significant regional and seasonal differences with, e.g., remarkable opposite 20th century evolution for NW (9\% increase) versus SE (9\% decrease). Other long- and short-term features are discussed and indicate the promising potential of the new database for further analyses and applications.}, address = {ZAMG-Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics, Vienna, Austria; CCRM-Climate Research Branch, Downsview, Toronto, Canada; CRU-Climatic Research Unit, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK; Istituto ISAC-CNR, Bologna, Italy; Istituto di Fisica Generale Applicata, Universit\`{a} di Milano, Milan, Italy; SMI, Societ\'{a} Meteorologica Italiana, Torino, Italy; M\'{e}t\'{e}o France, Toulouse, France; MeteoSwiss, Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology, Zurich, Switzerland; DWD-Deutscher Wetterdienst, Offenbach, Germany; CHMI-Czech Hydrometeorological Insitute, Prague, Czech Republic; SHMU-Slovak Hydrometeorological Institue, Bratislava, Slovakia; Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia; OMSZ-Hungarian Meteorological Service; ARSO-Environmental Agency of the Republic of Slovenia, Ljubljana, Slovenia; DHMZ-Meteorological and Hydrographical Service of Croatia, Zagreb, Croatia; METEOBIH, Federal Meteorological Institute, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina; Bratislava, Slovakia}, author = {Auer, Ingeborg and B\"{o}hm, Reinhard and Jurkovic, Anita and Lipa, Wolfgang and Orlik, Alexander and Potzmann, Roland and Sch\"{o}ner, Wolfgang and Ungersb\"{o}ck, Markus and Matulla, Christoph and Briffa, Keith and Jones, Phil and Efthymiadis, Dimitrios and Brunetti, Michele and Nanni, Teresa and Maugeri, Maurizio and Mercalli, Luca and Mestre, Olivier and Moisselin, Jean-Marc and Begert, Michael and M\"{u}ller-Westermeier, Gerhard and Kveton, Vit and Bochnicek, Oliver and Stastny, Pavel and Lapin, Milan and Szalai, S\'{a}ndor and Szentimrey, Tam\'{a}s and Cegnar, Tanja and Dolinar, Mojca and Gajic-Capka, Marjana and Zaninovic, Ksenija and Majstorovic, Zeljko and Nieplova, Elena}, citeulike-article-id = {1982312}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/joc.1377}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/abstract/112693140/ABSTRACT}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://meteo9.uibk.ac.at/Seminare/rev-20-Auer-etal-IJC-2006.pdf}, comment = {http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/data/alpine.htm}, doi = {10.1002/joc.1377}, journal = {International Journal of Climatology}, keywords = {climate, data, meteorology}, number = {1}, pages = {17--46}, posted-at = {2007-11-25 21:09:55}, priority = {2}, title = {HISTALP - historical instrumental climatological surface time series of the Greater Alpine Region}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/joc.1377}, volume = {27}, year = {2007} }

TY - JOUR ID - auer_07_histalphistorical L3 - citeulike-article-id:1982312 N2 - This paper describes the HISTALP database, consisting of monthly homogenised records of temperature, pressure, precipitation, sunshine and cloudiness for the 'Greater Alpine Region' (GAR, 4-19°E, 43-49°N, 0-3500m asl). The longest temperature and air pressure series extend back to 1760, precipitation to 1800, cloudiness to the 1840s and sunshine to the 1880s. A systematic QC procedure has been applied to the series and a high number of inhomogeneities (more than 2500) and outliers (more than 5000) have been detected and removed. The 557 HISTALP series are kept in different data modes: original and homogenised, gap-filled and outlier corrected station mode series, grid-1 series (anomaly fields at 1° × 1°, lat × long) and Coarse Resolution Subregional (CRS) mean series according to an EOF-based regionalisation. The leading climate variability features within the GAR are discussed through selected examples and a concluding linear trend analysis for 100, 50 and 25-year subperiods for the four horizontal and two altitudinal CRSs. Among the key findings of the trend analysis is the parallel centennial decrease/increase of both temperature and air pressure in the 19th/20th century. The 20th century increase (+1.2 °C/+ 1.1 hPa for annual GAR-means) evolved stepwise with a first peak near 1950 and the second increase (1.3 °C/0.6hPa per 25 years) starting in the 1970s. Centennial and decadal scale temperature trends were identical for all subregions. Air pressure, sunshine and cloudiness show significant differences between low versus high elevations. A long-term increase of the high-elevation series relative to the low-elevation series is given for sunshine and air pressure. Of special interest is the exceptional high correlation near 0.9 between the series on mean temperature and air pressure difference (high-minus low-elevation). This, further developed via some atmospheric statics and thermodynamics, allows the creation of ?barometric temperature series? without use of the measures of temperature. They support the measured temperature trends in the region. Precipitation shows the most significant regional and seasonal differences with, e.g., remarkable opposite 20th century evolution for NW (9% increase) versus SE (9% decrease). Other long- and short-term features are discussed and indicate the promising potential of the new database for further analyses and applications. IS - 1 JF - International Journal of Climatology AD - ZAMG-Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics, Vienna, Austria; CCRM-Climate Research Branch, Downsview, Toronto, Canada; CRU-Climatic Research Unit, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK; Istituto ISAC-CNR, Bologna, Italy; Istituto di Fisica Generale Applicata, Università di Milano, Milan, Italy; SMI, Societá Meteorologica Italiana, Torino, Italy; Météo France, Toulouse, France; MeteoSwiss, Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology, Zurich, Switzerland; DWD-Deutscher Wetterdienst, Offenbach, Germany; CHMI-Czech Hydrometeorological Insitute, Prague, Czech Republic; SHMU-Slovak Hydrometeorological Institue, Bratislava, Slovakia; Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia; OMSZ-Hungarian Meteorological Service; ARSO-Environmental Agency of the Republic of Slovenia, Ljubljana, Slovenia; DHMZ-Meteorological and Hydrographical Service of Croatia, Zagreb, Croatia; METEOBIH, Federal Meteorological Institute, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina; Bratislava, Slovakia EP - 46 TI - HISTALP - historical instrumental climatological surface time series of the Greater Alpine Region VL - 27 SP - 17 KW - climate KW - data KW - meteorology N1 - http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/data/alpine.htm AU - Auer, Ingeborg AU - Böhm, Reinhard AU - Jurkovic, Anita AU - Lipa, Wolfgang AU - Orlik, Alexander AU - Potzmann, Roland AU - Schöner, Wolfgang AU - Ungersböck, Markus AU - Matulla, Christoph AU - Briffa, Keith AU - Jones, Phil AU - Efthymiadis, Dimitrios AU - Brunetti, Michele AU - Nanni, Teresa AU - Maugeri, Maurizio AU - Mercalli, Luca AU - Mestre, Olivier AU - Moisselin, Jean-Marc AU - Begert, Michael AU - Müller-Westermeier, Gerhard AU - Kveton, Vit AU - Bochnicek, Oliver AU - Stastny, Pavel AU - Lapin, Milan AU - Szalai, Sándor AU - Szentimrey, Tamás AU - Cegnar, Tanja AU - Dolinar, Mojca AU - Gajic-Capka, Marjana AU - Zaninovic, Ksenija AU - Majstorovic, Zeljko AU - Nieplova, Elena PY - 2007/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/joc.1377 ER -