Published September 22, 2021 | Version 1.0
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Daily temperature data at Adelaide, Australia taken in a Glaisher thermometer stand (1856–1952) and a homogenised daily temperature dataset for Adelaide (1856–2019)

  • 1. Australian Meteorological Association
  • 2. Australian Bureau of Meteorology
  • 3. The University of Melbourne
  • 4. Formerly of the Australian Bureau of Meteorology

Description

23000_Adelaide_Glaisherstand_Tx_data.tsv and 23000_Adelaide_Glaisherstand_Tn_data.tsv: Daily maximum and minimum temperature observations for Adelaide,South Australia, taken in a Glaisher thermometer stand from November 1856 to July 1947. Data are given in Station Exchange Format (SEF, https://github.com/C3S-Data-Rescue-Lot1-WP3/SEF/wiki).

23000_combined_homogenised_data.tsv: A homogenised daily temperature dataset for Adelaide, South Australia, from January 1859 to December 2019. Data are provided in the format Year, Month, Day, Maximum temperature (degrees Celcius), Minimum temperature (degrees Celcius).

Images of the data source for File 1 are available from the Australian Meteorological Association at https://www.met-acre.net/MERIT/AMETA.html. 

The data are shared under Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC 4.0)

Notes

Full details of the dataset development are provided in Ashcroft, L., Trewin, B., Benoy, M., Ray, D., and Courtney, C. The world's longest known parallel temperature dataset: A comparison between daily Glaisher and Stevenson screen temperature data at Adelaide, Australia, 1887–1947, International Journal of Climatology, 2021, DOI: 10.1002/joc.7385.

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Journal article: 10.1002/joc.7385 (DOI)