Towards new weather and climate baselines for assessing weather and climate extremes, impacts, and risks

• Main Authors: WILLIAMSON, Fiona, ALLAN, Rob, D'Arrigo, Roseanne
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2017
• Subjects: Climate; data recovery; dynamical reconstructions; historic weather; re-analyses; Asian Studies; Environmental Sciences; Geographic Information Sciences
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cis_research/227; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/cis_research/article/1226/viewcontent/11_CBA2014_01_pvoa_cc_by.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Initiatives to recover (sourcing, imaging, digitizing) historic datasets for generating more accurate longterm climate models have only gained momentum over the last decade, despite a long precedent of compelling arguments as to the value of historic weather observations (Le Roy Ladurie, 1972; Lamb,...