Evaluation and application of a low-cost measurement network to study intra-urban temperature differences during summer 2018 in Bern, Switzerland

Gubler, Moritz; Christen, Andreas; Remund, Jan; Brönnimann, Stefan

doi:10.1016/j.uclim.2021.100817

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“…The model is trained on sub-hourly data (10-minute resolution) from the MeteoSwiss urban stations of Bern-Bollwerk (located on a roof at almost the same location where Wolf's apartment stood in the 1850s) and Zurich-Zeughaushof (located in a courtyard close to the main train station), both covering the period 1991-2020. Modern-day urban heat island has certainly an effect on the diurnal cycle at these stations (e.g., Gubler et al, 2021). Nevertheless, they provide the best available estimate of the climatological diurnal cycle in the early instrumental period.…”

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Pre-industrial Temperature Variability on the Swiss Plateau Derived from the Instrumental Daily Series of Bern and Zurich

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Abstract. We describe the compilation of two early instrumental daily temperature series from Bern and Zurich, Switzerland, starting from 1760 and 1756, respectively. The series are a combination of numerous small segments from different observers at different locations, within and outside the two cities, converted to modern units and homogenized. In addition, we introduce a methodology to estimate the errors affecting daily and monthly mean values derived from early instrumental observations. Given the frequent small data gaps, we merge the two daily series into a more complete series representing the central Swiss Plateau. We finally compare the homogenized monthly series with other temperature reconstructions for Switzerland. We find significant differences before 1860 pointing to biases affecting some of the most widely used instrumental data sets. In general, the homogenization of temperature measurements at the transition between the early instrumental and the national weather services eras remains a problematic issue in historical climatology and has significant implications for other fields of climate research.

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Pre-industrial Temperature Variability on the Swiss Plateau Derived from the Instrumental Daily Series of Bern and Zurich

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Pfister³

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“…Monitoring of green infrastructure is much needed in cities because suboptimal environmental conditions of urban habitat lead to high mortality rates of urban trees, low lifespans and decreased quality of ecosystem services, relative to its rural counterparts [51]. Smart technology holds the promise of quantifying those environmental phenomena and the context with sufficient degree of detail [52]. While there are many examples of implementing dense networks of sensors for environmental in cities worldwide ( [53] for example see 'smart Santander' [54]), where very little is said about their benefits for urban nature [6 ,9 ,55].…”

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“…The model was trained on sub-hourly data (10 min resolution) from the MeteoSwiss urban stations of Bern-Bollwerk (located on a roof at almost the same location where Wolf's apartment stood in the 1850s) and Zurich-Zeughaushof (located in a courtyard close to the main train station), both covering the period 1991-2020. The modern-day urban heat island certainly has an effect on the diurnal cycle at these stations (e.g., Gubler et al, 2021). Nevertheless, they provide the best available estimate of the climatological diurnal cycle in the early instrumental period.…”

Section: Daily Meansmentioning

confidence: 99%

Pre-industrial temperature variability on the Swiss Plateau derived from the instrumental daily series of Bern and Zurich

et al. 2022

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Abstract. We describe the compilation of two early instrumental daily temperature series from Bern and Zurich, Switzerland, starting from 1760 and 1756, respectively. The series are a combination of numerous small segments from different observers at different locations within and outside the two cities that are converted to modern units and homogenized. In addition, we introduce a methodology to estimate the errors affecting daily and monthly mean values derived from early instrumental observations. Given the frequent small data gaps, we merge the two daily series into a more complete series representing the central Swiss Plateau. We finally compare the homogenized monthly series with other temperature reconstructions for Switzerland. We find significant differences before 1860, pointing to biases that might affect some of the most widely used instrumental data sets. In general, the homogenization of temperature measurements at the transition between the early instrumental and national weather service eras remains a problematic issue in historical climatology and has significant implications for other fields of climate research.

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Evaluation and application of a low-cost measurement network to study intra-urban temperature differences during summer 2018 in Bern, Switzerland

Cited by 38 publications

References 47 publications

Pre-industrial Temperature Variability on the Swiss Plateau Derived from the Instrumental Daily Series of Bern and Zurich

Pre-industrial Temperature Variability on the Swiss Plateau Derived from the Instrumental Daily Series of Bern and Zurich

Smarter greener cities through a social-ecological-technological systems approach

Pre-industrial temperature variability on the Swiss Plateau derived from the instrumental daily series of Bern and Zurich

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