Reconstructing El Niño Southern Oscillation using data from ships’ logbooks, 1815–1854. Part II: Comparisons with existing ENSO reconstructions and implications for reconstructing ENSO diversity

Barrett, Hannah G.; Jones, Julie Miller; Bigg, Grant R.

doi:10.1007/s00382-017-3797-4

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“…In fact, the inclusion of wind data from ships in certain Atlantic areas improved dramatically the performance of the reconstruction. Barrett, Jones, and Bigg (2017a) and Barrett, Jones, and Bigg (2017b) combined ships' logbook records to produce an ENSO index for the period 1815-1854 through the application of different statistical techniques. The logbook-based reconstruction captured El Niño events better than La Niña events, and East Pacific El Niño events better than Central Pacific El Niño events, thus suggesting a potential bias in the historical reconstructions.…”

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Understanding weather and climate of the last 300 years from ships' logbooks

García‐Herrera

Barriopedro

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et al. 2018

WIREs Climate Change

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this highly technological environment, why should we pay attention to old ships' logbooks of the sailing era? Why should climatologists invest time and effort in these old records that have been preserved since the end of the 17th century in different archives? (García-Herrera, Wilkinson, et al., 2005, Wheeler, 2014. This paper tries to answer these questions and show the value of the meteorological observations kept in these documents. After a historical overview, the meteorological applications will be described, with emphasis on hurricanes and weather descriptions during historical events. Next, we will show also how historical records can be combined with modern instrumental observations to reveal low-frequency features of certain circulation systems. Some conclusions and outlook will be drawn in the last section. | HISTORICAL OVERVIEWFrom the 15th century, European powers, initially Portugal and Spain but soon followed by France, the Netherlands, and England, established overseas empires that demanded regular and reliable lines of marine communication.

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Understanding weather and climate of the last 300 years from ships' logbooks

García‐Herrera

Barriopedro

Gallego

et al. 2018

WIREs Climate Change

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“…High-resolution reconstructions of regional trends in the frequency of winds from different directions, for example, reveal broadscale atmospheric circulation changes associated with stratovolcanic eruptions, ENSO, the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO), or the monsoons of the Northern and Southern hemispheres (e.g. Garcia et al, 2001;Küttel et al, 2010;Barriopedro et al, 2014;Barrett, 2017;Barrett et al, 2018;García-Herrera et al, 2018).…”

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Climate indices in historical climate reconstructions: a global state of the art

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Abstract. Narrative evidence contained within historical documents and inscriptions provides an important record of climate variability for periods prior to the onset of systematic meteorological data collection. A common approach used by historical climatologists to convert such qualitative information into continuous quantitative proxy data is through the generation of ordinal-scale climate indices. There is, however, considerable variability in the types of phenomena reconstructed using an index approach and the practice of index development in different parts of the world. This review, written by members of the PAGES (Past Global Changes) CRIAS working group – a collective of climate historians and historical climatologists researching Climate Reconstructions and Impacts from the Archives of Societies – provides the first global synthesis of the use of the index approach in climate reconstruction. We begin by summarising the range of studies that have used indices for climate reconstruction across six continents (Europe, Asia, Africa, the Americas, and Australia) as well as the world's oceans. We then outline the different methods by which indices are developed in each of these regions, including a discussion of the processes adopted to verify and calibrate index series, and the measures used to express confidence and uncertainty. We conclude with a series of recommendations to guide the development of future index-based climate reconstructions to maximise their effectiveness for use by climate modellers and in multiproxy climate reconstructions.

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“…The few exceptions considering the Pacific are limited to the study of the climatic implications in the changes in the duration of a 10 particular shipping route (Garcia et al, 2001), focus on the westernmost Pacific (Vega et al, 2018) or have made use of indirect approaches, by estimating the climate in the tropical Pacific through the use present-time teleconnections patterns using data taken at other oceanic basins (e.g. Barrett et al, 2017a;Barrett et al, 2017b).…”

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confidence: 99%