DOCU-CLIM: A global documentary climate dataset for climate reconstructions.

ABSTRACT: Documentary climate data describe evidence of past climate arising from predominantly written historical documents such as diaries, chronicles, newspapers, or logbooks.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 The dataset DOCU-CLIM comprises 621 time series (both published and hitherto unpublished) providing information on historical variations in temperature, precipitation, and wind regime.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 m

SUBMITTER: Burgdorf AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10290071 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature