Historic temperature observations on Nordaustlandet, north-east Svalbard
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...
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ftubkarlsruhe:oai:EVASTAR-Karlsruhe.de:1000135537 2023-05-15T14:49:21+02:00 Historic temperature observations on Nordaustlandet, north-east Svalbard Sinnhuber, Björn-Martin 2021-07-20 application/pdf https://publikationen.bibliothek.kit.edu/1000135537 https://publikationen.bibliothek.kit.edu/1000135537/121058265 https://doi.org/10.5445/IR/1000135537 eng eng Norsk Polarinstitutt info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/wos/000692784200001 info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.33265/polar.v40.7564 info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/issn/1751-8369 https://publikationen.bibliothek.kit.edu/1000135537 https://publikationen.bibliothek.kit.edu/1000135537/121058265 https://doi.org/10.5445/IR/1000135537 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/deed.de info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess CC-BY-NC Polar research, 40, Art. Nr.: 7564 ISSN: 1751-8369 Climate change Arctic amplification early 20th century warming hunters’ diaries Henry Rudi Oxford University Arctic Expedition 1935/36 ddc:550 Earth sciences info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/550 doc-type:article Text info:eu-repo/semantics/article article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 2021 ftubkarlsruhe https://doi.org/10.5445/IR/1000135537 https://doi.org/10.33265/polar.v40.7564 2023-01-22T23:34:19Z 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 observations on the island of Nordaustlandet, north-east Svalbard, in order to link these to the extended Svalbard Airport series. This includes the Haudegen observations at Rijpfjorden during 1944/45 and a previously unrecognized data set obtained by the Norwegian hunters and trappers Gunnar Knoph and Henry Rudi during their wintering at Rijpfjorden in 1934/35. The adjustment is based on data from an automatic weather station at Rijpfjorden during 2014–16 and verified with other independent historic temperature observations on Nordaustlandet. An analysis of the Haudegen radiosonde data indicates that the surface temperature observations at Rijpfjorden are generally well correlated with the free tropospheric temperatures at 850 hPa, but occasionally show the occurrence of boundary-layer inversions during winter, where local temperatures fall substantially below what is expected from the regression. The adjusted historic observations from Nordaustlandet can, therefore, be used to fill remaining gaps in the extended Svalbard Airport series. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Climate change Nordaustlandet Polar Research Rijpfjord* Svalbard KITopen (Karlsruhe Institute of Technologie) Arctic Gunnar ENVELOPE(-108.885,-108.885,59.384,59.384) Nordaustlandet ENVELOPE(22.400,22.400,79.800,79.800) Rijpfjorden ENVELOPE(22.188,22.188,80.165,80.165) Svalbard |
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Climate change Arctic amplification early 20th century warming hunters’ diaries Henry Rudi Oxford University Arctic Expedition 1935/36 ddc:550 Earth sciences info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/550 |
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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 observations on the island of Nordaustlandet, north-east Svalbard, in order to link these to the extended Svalbard Airport series. This includes the Haudegen observations at Rijpfjorden during 1944/45 and a previously unrecognized data set obtained by the Norwegian hunters and trappers Gunnar Knoph and Henry Rudi during their wintering at Rijpfjorden in 1934/35. The adjustment is based on data from an automatic weather station at Rijpfjorden during 2014–16 and verified with other independent historic temperature observations on Nordaustlandet. An analysis of the Haudegen radiosonde data indicates that the surface temperature observations at Rijpfjorden are generally well correlated with the free tropospheric temperatures at 850 hPa, but occasionally show the occurrence of boundary-layer inversions during winter, where local temperatures fall substantially below what is expected from the regression. The adjusted historic observations from Nordaustlandet can, therefore, be used to fill remaining gaps in the extended Svalbard Airport series. |
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Historic temperature observations on Nordaustlandet, north-east Svalbard |
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Historic temperature observations on Nordaustlandet, north-east Svalbard |
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Historic temperature observations on Nordaustlandet, north-east Svalbard |
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Historic temperature observations on Nordaustlandet, north-east Svalbard |
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Historic temperature observations on Nordaustlandet, north-east Svalbard |
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historic temperature observations on nordaustlandet, north-east svalbard |
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Norsk Polarinstitutt |
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2021 |
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ENVELOPE(-108.885,-108.885,59.384,59.384) ENVELOPE(22.400,22.400,79.800,79.800) ENVELOPE(22.188,22.188,80.165,80.165) |
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Arctic Gunnar Nordaustlandet Rijpfjorden Svalbard |
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Arctic Climate change Nordaustlandet Polar Research Rijpfjord* Svalbard |
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