Luterbacher, J.; Allan, R.; Wilkinson, C.; Hawkins, E.; Teleti, P.; Lorrey, A.; Brönnimann, S.; Hechler, P.; Velikou, K.; Xoplaki, E. The Importance and Scientific Value of Long Weather and Climate Records; Examples of Historical Marine Data Efforts across the Globe. Climate2024, 12, 39.
Luterbacher, J.; Allan, R.; Wilkinson, C.; Hawkins, E.; Teleti, P.; Lorrey, A.; Brönnimann, S.; Hechler, P.; Velikou, K.; Xoplaki, E. The Importance and Scientific Value of Long Weather and Climate Records; Examples of Historical Marine Data Efforts across the Globe. Climate 2024, 12, 39.
Luterbacher, J.; Allan, R.; Wilkinson, C.; Hawkins, E.; Teleti, P.; Lorrey, A.; Brönnimann, S.; Hechler, P.; Velikou, K.; Xoplaki, E. The Importance and Scientific Value of Long Weather and Climate Records; Examples of Historical Marine Data Efforts across the Globe. Climate2024, 12, 39.
Luterbacher, J.; Allan, R.; Wilkinson, C.; Hawkins, E.; Teleti, P.; Lorrey, A.; Brönnimann, S.; Hechler, P.; Velikou, K.; Xoplaki, E. The Importance and Scientific Value of Long Weather and Climate Records; Examples of Historical Marine Data Efforts across the Globe. Climate 2024, 12, 39.
Abstract
The rescue, digitisation, quality control, preservation and utilization of long and high quality meteorological and climate records, particularly related to historical marine data, are crucial for advancing our understanding of the Earth's climate system. In combination with land and air measurements, the historical marine records serve as foundational pillars in linking present and past weather and climate information, offering essential insights into natural climate variability, extreme events in marine areas, baseline data for assessing current changes, and inputs for en-hancing predictive climate models and reanalyses. This paper provides an overview of marine data rescue activities covering the past centuries, presents and highlights several ongoing projects across the world and how the data are used in an integrative and international framework. Current and future continuous efforts in data rescue, digitisation, quality control and the de-velopment of temporally high resolution meteorological and climatological observations from the Sea, will greatly help to further complete our understanding and knowledge of the Earth system including extremes, as well as improving the quality of reanalysis.
Keywords
historical marine data; data rescue and digitisation efforts; early meteorological and climatological observations; earth climate system; reanalysis
Subject
Environmental and Earth Sciences, Atmospheric Science and Meteorology
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