Collating historic weather observations for the East Asian region: Challenges, solutions, and reanalyses

• Main Authors: WILLIAMSON, Fiona, ALLAN, Rob, REN, Guoyu, LEE, Tsz-cheung, LUI, Wing-Hong, KUBOTA, Hisayuki, MATSUMOTO, Jun, LUTERBACHER, Jurg, WILKINSON, Clive, WOOD, Kevin
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2018
• Subjects: Sociology
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/2645; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/3902/viewcontent/Williamson2018_Article_CollatingHistoricWeatherObserv.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Historic instrumental weather observations, made on land or at sea from as early as the 17th century (e.g., Camuffo etal., 2010), are integral to extending our understanding of the decadal and centennial variations of Earth’s climate and forcomparison with paleo-proxy data. The potential of such dat...