Transport 98-14

• Main Authors: The Climate Of, Ellen Vaarby Laursen, Photographer Helge Faurby
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Faroe Islands; Faroes
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.28.2869; http://www.dmi.dk/f+u/publikation/Tr98-14.pdf

This report presents the observed climate of the Faroe Islands, mainly from 1961, based on climatological data series and normals, but a more general description of the weather and climate is also included together with trends in temperature, precipitation and sunshine in Trshavn from the beginning of the 1920s. The main purpose of this report is to publish the various climatological parameters observed in the Faroes since 1961, including the climatological standard normals from the period 1961-1990, which is the latest standard normal period defined by the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO). WMO Technical Regulations define climatological standard normals as "averages of climatological data computed for the following consecutive periods of 30 years: 1 January 1901 to 31 December 1930, 1 January 1931 to 31 December 1960, etc.". Climatological normals are defined from the same regulations as "period averages computed for a uniform and relatively long period comprising at least three consecutive ten-year periods". Shorter series and series not sufficiently homogeneous must be referred to as provisional "normal" average values. Thus this report presents: