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Articles | Volume 17, issue 1
Articles | Volume 17, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-17-133-2021
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14 Jan 2021
Research article |  | 14 Jan 2021

Evaluating the utility of qualitative personal diaries in precipitation reconstruction in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries

Alice Harvey-Fishenden and Neil Macdonald

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This paper evaluates the utility of personal diaries in precipitation reconstruction and value of multiple overlapping diaries for producing a more objective record. Through analysis of >27 500 daily weather descriptions, we demonstrate that indices derived from such qualitative sources can create valuable precipitation records, with potential for this methodology to be applied to earlier material or in areas without extant instrumental records to address spatial and temporal gaps in knowledge.
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