RT Journal Article
T1 DOCU-CLIM: A global documentary climate dataset for climate reconstructions
A1 Burgdorf, Angela-Maria
A1 Brönnimann, Stefan
A1 Adamson, George
A1 Amano, Tatsuya
A1 Aono, Yasuyuki
A1 Barriopedro, David
A1 Bullón, Teresa
A1 Camenisch, Chantal
A1 Camuffo, Dario
A1 Daux, Valérie
A1 del Rosario Prieto, María
A1 Dobrovolný, Petr
A1 Gallego Puyol, David
A1 García-Herrera, Ricardo
A1 Gergis, Joelle
A1 Grab, Stefan
A1 Hannaford, Matthew J.
A1 Holopainen, Jari
A1 Kelso, Clare
A1 Kern, Zoltán
A1 Kiss, Andrea
A1 Kuan-Hui Lin, Elaine
A1 Loader, Neil J.
A1 Možný, Martin
A1 Nash, David
A1 Nicholson, Sharon E.
A1 Pfister, Christian
A1 Rodrigo, Fernando S.
A1 Rutishauser, This
A1 Sharma, Sapna
A1 Takács, Katalin
A1 Vargas, Ernesto T.
A1 Vega Martín, Inmaculada
K1 Paleoclimate
K1 Climate reconstruction
K1 Dataset
AB Documentary climate data describe evidence of past climate arising from predominantly written historical documents such as diaries, chronicles, newspapers, or logbooks.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 The dataset DOCU-CLIM comprises 621 time series (both published and hitherto unpublished) providing information on historical variations in temperature, precipitation, and wind regime.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.
PB Springer Nature
YR 2023
FD 2023-06-23
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10433/22522
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10433/22522
LA en
NO Scientific Data volume 10, Article number: 402 (2023)
NO ERC Grant PALAEO-RA, 787574
NO Departamento de Sistemas Físicos, Químicos y Naturales. Universidad Pablo de Olavide.
DS RIO
RD May 9, 2026