- Title
- Meteorological observations for Eversleigh station, near Armidale, New South Wales, Australia: 1877-1922
- Creator
- Bridgman, Howard; Ashcroft, Linden; Thornton, Ken; Di Gravio, Gionni; Oates, William
- Relation
- Geoscience Data Journal Vol. 6, Issue 2, p. 174-188
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/gdj3.80
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2019
- Description
- Historical weather observations on the daily scale are vital for the improvement of reanalysis products and the analysis of long-term variability of extreme events. While daily datasets extend for several centuries in parts of the Northern Hemisphere, the majority of historical data for the Southern Hemisphere are monthly averages or totals. In this paper, we describe a newly recovered dataset of ten daily meteorological variables for 1877 to 1922 from Eversleigh, a property in the New England region of New South Wales in Australia. Here, we present the full process of data rescue, from digitization to quality control and an assessment of homogeneity. We show that the majority of variables were recorded to a high standard and that the data are of general use for climate analysis. Forty years of daily temperature, cloud cover, wind, and pressure observations are now available for the New England Plateau, offering data that are more complete than any other records for the region in the Australian Bureau of Meteorology dataset. The Eversleigh dataset now provides an opportunity to gain more insight into the 19th century weather and climate of eastern Australia during a time of large interannual climate variability before the dominant impact of an anthropogenic warming signal.
- Subject
- Armidale; Australian climate; Belfield; data rescue; El Nino Southern Oscillation; meteorology
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1419479
- Identifier
- uon:37458
- Identifier
- ISSN:2049-6060
- Rights
- © 2019 The Authors. Geoscience Data Journal published by Royal Meteorological Society and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
- Language
- eng
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