Historical Meteorological Open Data Repository at Nicolaus Copernicus University Centre for Climate Change Research

The Nicolaus Copernicus Centre for Climate Change Research (CCCR) was established in 2019, as a university interdisciplinary unit. It currently consists of fifteen researchers from four faculties representing five separate scientific disciplines (Mathematics and Computer Science; Biological and Veterinary Sciences; Historical Sciences; and Earth Sciences and Spatial Management). Researchers from Poland and abroad are kindly invited to work at or with the CCCR.

The main goal of the CCCR is to research climate changes over the last millennium in Poland, Central Europe and polar areas (mainly the Arctic). This goal can be achieved primarily by collecting historical meteorological data in archives and scientific libraries around the world. Our research is part of a worldwide initiative (Brönnimann et al. 2019) to inventory and rescue meteorological data for historical times.

The CCCR repository has so far included historical data gathered during three scientific projects, i.e. CEArc, ExtremeWeather, and MORCLIM for Poland and Arctic areas from the Middle Ages (as indices based on descriptive sources) until Early Twentieth Century Warming (1920-1950). Here we present the method of data collection, their digitization, quality control (QC), post-processing and the structure of our repository according to FAIR (Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, and Reuse) principles.

The work was supported by the National Science Centre, Poland, projects No. 2020/37/B/ST10/00710 and No. 2020/39/B/ST10/00653

References:

Brönnimann S., Allan R., Ashcroft L., Baer S., Barriendos M., Brázdil R., Brugnara Y., Brunet M., Brunetti M., Chimani B., Cornes R., Domínguez-Castro F., Filipiak J., Founda D., Gergis J., Grab S., Hannak L., García Herrera R., Huhtamaa H., Jacobsen K. S., Jones P., Jourdain S., Kiss A., Lin K. E., Lorrey A., Lundstad E., Luterbacher J., Moberg A., Mauelshagen F., Maugeri M., Maughan N., Neukom R., Nicholson S., Noone S., Nordli Ø., Ólafsdóttir K. B., Pearce P. R., Pfister L., Pribyl K., Przybylak R., Pudmenzky C., Rasol D., Reichenbach D., Řezníčková L., Rodrigo F. S., Rohde R., Rohr C., Skrynyk O., Slonosky V., Thorne P., Valente M. A., Vaquero J. M. Westcottt N. E., Williamson F., Wyszyński P. 2019: Unlocking pre-1850 instrumental meteorological records: A global inventory. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 100: ES389-ES413. doi: https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-19-0040.1