Historic temperature observations on Nordaustlandet, north-east Svalbard

• Main Author: Sinnhuber, Björn-Martin
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Norsk Polarinstitutt 2021
• Subjects: Climate change; Arctic amplification; early 20th century warming; hunters’ diaries; Henry Rudi; Oxford University Arctic Expedition 1935/36; Arctic; Svalbard; Gunnar; Nordaustlandet; Rijpfjorden; Rijpfjord*
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5445/ir/1000135537; https://publikationen.bibliothek.kit.edu/1000135537

Long-term meteorological data for the Arctic are sparse. One of the longest quasi-continuous temperature time series in the High Arctic is the extended Svalbard Airport series, providing daily temperature data from 1898 until the present. Here, I derive an adjustment to historic temperature observat...