Journal article

Publication year: 2021

Pages: 55-73

Journal: Geoscience Data Journal

Volume number: 8

Issue number: 1

ISSN: 2049-6060

Open access status: Gold

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1002/gdj3.108

Publisher: Wiley

Abstract: 
In this paper, we describe the results of a climate data rescue (DARE) activity conducted at the Ukrainian Hydrometeorological Institute (Kyiv, Ukraine) in cooperation with the Justus Liebig University Giessen (Giessen, Germany), the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and Met Office Hadley Centre (Exeter, United Kingdom). The focus of our work is on pre-1850 sub-daily meteorological observations conducted on the territory of modern Ukraine. Data from eight stations (stored in special hard copy tables/books, with handwritten records) have been digitized during the DARE process, resulting in 291,103 rescued values in total. More than half of this number (165,980, similar to 57%) are related to air temperature data, 124,376 data values (similar to 42.7%) concern atmospheric pressure records and 747 values (similar to 0.3%) are precipitation data. Simple quality control of the digitized data has been conducted, including an intercomparison between stations as well as comparison with monthly temperature data previously digitized from other paper sources. The quality control procedures revealed fairly good agreement between rescued time series on the monthly time scale as well as with the monthly data from independent sources. However, several periods for a few stations should be used with caution due to relatively large discrepancies that were found. The rescued digital database can be used for extreme value analysis for the pre-1850 period in comparison with today's climate, regional climatological studies and will be used for future Reanalysis. In addition, for the first time, we show that subdaily temperature from Kyiv during 'the year without summer' 1816 in Western and Central Europe were not anomalous in this part of Eastern Europe.

Harvard Citation style: Skrynyk, O., Luterbacher, J., Allan, R., Boichuk, D., Sidenko, V., Skrynyk, O., et al. (2021) Ukrainian early (pre-1850) historical weather observations, Geoscience Data Journal, 8(1), pp. 55-73. https://doi.org/10.1002/gdj3.108

APA Citation style: Skrynyk, O., Luterbacher, J., Allan, R., Boichuk, D., Sidenko, V., Skrynyk, O., Palarz, A., Oshurok, D., Xoplaki, E., & Osadchyi, V. (2021). Ukrainian early (pre-1850) historical weather observations. Geoscience Data Journal. 8(1), 55-73. https://doi.org/10.1002/gdj3.108