Historic temperature observations on Nordaustlandet, north-east Svalbard

• Published in: Polar Research
• Main Author: Sinnhuber, Björn-Martin
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Norwegian Polar Institute 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; Polar Research; Rijpfjord*
• Online Access: https://polarresearch.net/index.php/polar/article/view/7564; https://doi.org/10.33265/polar.v40.7564

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...