The climate of Granada (southern Spain) during the first third of the 18th century (1706–1730) according to documentary sources

Rodrigo, F. S.

doi:10.5194/cp-15-647-2019

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“…The reports are a brief summary in which the editors give information for each province. Therefore, the information provided is basically a spatial In historical climatology, there are various methods to reconstruct climatic conditions by analysing documentary sources [14][15][16][17][18][19]. In our case, given the nature of the data source under study (a printed periodical), and its weekly resolution in which not only extreme phenomena are described, the most appropriate method is to analyse the weather descriptors used in the texts.…”

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Recovering Climate Data from Documentary Sources: A Study on the Climate in the South of Spain from 1792 to 1808

Rodrigo

2020

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This work analyses new climate data on Southern Spain during the period 1792-1808. The data source is the periodical Correo Mercantil de España y sus Indias (Mercantile Mail of Spain and the Spanish Indies), which published weekly summaries of the weather conditions in Spain over this period. The study focuses on the southern provinces, providing 2788 new records, some of them corresponding to areas with no previously recorded data (Córdoba, Jaén). The analysis indicates the predominance of cold and dry winters, cold and wet springs, warm and dry summers, and variable autumn conditions, cold and humid in the western provinces while warm and dry in the eastern provinces. Some examples of these situations are discussed.

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Recovering Climate Data from Documentary Sources: A Study on the Climate in the South of Spain from 1792 to 1808

Rodrigo

2020

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“…The PAGES 2k multiproxy database 9 , for instance, only includes 15 documentary proxy series. However, historians have compiled documentary climate information in databases such as EURO-CLIMHIST for many years 10 (note that qualitative weather descriptions are also found in databases of early instrumental meteorological data, e.g., Rodrigo 11 ).…”

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DOCU-CLIM: A global documentary climate dataset for climate reconstructions

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Documentary climate data describe evidence of past climate arising from predominantly written historical documents such as diaries, chronicles, newspapers, or logbooks. Over the past decades, historians and climatologists have generated numerous document-based time series of local and regional climates. However, a global dataset of documentary climate time series has never been compiled, and documentary data are rarely used in large-scale climate reconstructions. Here, we present the first global multi-variable collection of documentary climate records. The dataset DOCU-CLIM comprises 621 time series (both published and hitherto unpublished) providing information on historical variations in temperature, precipitation, and wind regime. The series are evaluated by formulating proxy forward models (i.e., predicting the documentary observations from climate fields) in an overlapping period. Results show strong correlations, particularly for the temperature-sensitive series. Correlations are somewhat lower for precipitation-sensitive series. Overall, we ascribe considerable potential to documentary records as climate data, especially in regions and seasons not well represented by early instrumental data and palaeoclimate proxies.

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“…Reconstructing historical climates from archives of societies remains a core mission of historical climatology. Recent years have brought numerous new studies of early weather measurements (Brugnara et al, 2020;Camuffo et al, 2019Camuffo et al, , 2020Camuffo et al, , 2021, further digitization and publication of early instrumental records (Ashcroft et al, 2021;Burt & Burt, 2019;Gergis et al, 2021;Pappert et al, 2021;Rodrigo, 2019a), as well as applications of early instrumental data to analyze climate and weather events, such as the cooling impact of volcanic eruptions (Brönnimann et al, 2019;Picas & Grab, 2020;Rodrigo, 2019b). Research has continued into descriptive records as well, including weather chronicles (e.g., Filipiak et al, 2019), ships' logbooks (e.g., García-Herrera et al, 2018, and official records (e.g., Haolong et al, 2020).…”

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New perspectives on historical climatology

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Historical climatology is an interdisciplinary field of research encompassing the reconstruction of past climate and weather from written sources and artifacts, as well the application of climate reconstructions to the study of human history. Historical climatology has grown in recent years, and this growth has brought both insights and challenges. Research has expanded into new regions and periods and diversified into novel sources, methods, and interdisciplinary collaborations. At the same time, the heterogeneity of evidence and approaches has complicated the integration of multiple climate and weather reconstructions. Moreover, the diversity of disciplinary perspectives, terminologies, and perspectives can create miscommunication among scholars in the field, particularly on issues of historical knowledge and causation. Innovative approaches in the field, including Bayesian methods, may help address these challenges.

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The climate of Granada (southern Spain) during the first third of the 18th century (1706–1730) according to documentary sources

Abstract: The climatic information recorded by the physi-

Cited by 8 publications

References 34 publications

Recovering Climate Data from Documentary Sources: A Study on the Climate in the South of Spain from 1792 to 1808

Recovering Climate Data from Documentary Sources: A Study on the Climate in the South of Spain from 1792 to 1808

DOCU-CLIM: A global documentary climate dataset for climate reconstructions

New perspectives on historical climatology

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