Climate of the Past
Climate of the Past
Climate of the Past
Articles | Volume 16, issue 5
Articles | Volume 16, issue 5
Clim. Past, 16, 1937–1952, 2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-16-1937-2020
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the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Special issue: International methods and comparisons in climate reconstruction...

Clim. Past, 16, 1937–1952, 2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-16-1937-2020
© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 16, issue 5

Research article 21 Oct 2020

Research article | 21 Oct 2020

Synthetic weather diaries: concept and application to Swiss weather in 1816

Stefan Brönnimann

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Scientists often reconstruct climate from proxy data such as tree rings or historical documents. Here, I do the reverse and produce a weather diary from historical numerical weather data. Such "synthetic weather diaries" may be useful for historians, e.g. to compare with other sources or to study the weather experienced during a journey or a military operation. They could also help train machine-learning approaches, which could then be used to reconstruct weather from historical diaries.
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