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https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-16-663-2020
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https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-16-663-2020
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Research article
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02 Apr 2020
Research article |
| 02 Apr 2020
| 02 Apr 2020
Statistical reconstruction of daily precipitation and temperature fields in Switzerland back to 1864
Lucas Pfister
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Institute of Geography, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Stefan Brönnimann
Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Institute of Geography, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Mikhaël Schwander
Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology MeteoSwiss, Zurich, Switzerland
Francesco Alessandro Isotta
Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology MeteoSwiss, Zurich, Switzerland
Pascal Horton
Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Institute of Geography, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Christian Rohr
Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Institute of History, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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Short summary
This paper aims to reconstruct high-resolution daily precipitation and temperature fields for Switzerland back to 1864 using a statistical approach called the analogue resampling method. Results suggest that the presented method is suitable for weather reconstruction. As illustrated with the example of the avalanche in winter 1887/88, these weather reconstructions have great potential for various analyses of past weather and climate impact modelling.
This paper aims to reconstruct high-resolution daily precipitation and temperature fields for...
