Historical/Documentary Data Sets

Bradley, R.S., 1991. Pre-instrumental climate: how has climate varied during the past 500 years?		Garcia et al. Manila Galleons Voyage Records

The NOAA Paleoclimatology Program distributes archives of paleoclimatic indicators derived from historical references and documentary evidence, such as church records, harvest dates, harbor ice free dates, etc.

Obtaining Data     Please Cite Data Contributors!

• Historical Climate Data Catalogue
• Casty et al. 2005 European Alps Temperature and Precipitation Reconstructions
• Casty et al. 2007 European Pattern Climatology, Gridded Monthly Temp., Precip., 500hPa Height
• Chuine et al. 2004 Burgundy Grape Harvest Dates and Spring-Summer Temperature
• Garcia et al. 2001 Manila Galleons Voyage Records
• Garcia-Herrera et al. 2008 Northern Peru Documentary El Niño Data:
  Data Description and Documentary Source Material in Microsoft Word or Microsoft Excel format.
• Ge et al. Winter Half-Year Temperature for East-Central China
• Luterbacher et al. North Atlantic/Europe Sea Level Pressure Reconstruction
• Meier et al. 2007 Swiss Grape Harvest Dates and Spring-Summer Temperature
• Mikami Historical Climate Indices in Japan and Description.
• Pauling et al. 2006 Gridded European Seasonal Precipitation Reconstructions
• Pfister et al. Historical Climate Indices in Switzerland and Description.
• Quinn and Neal Historical Record of El Niño Events and Description.
• Rutishauser et al. 2007 Swiss Spring Phenology Reconstruction, Text or Excel
• Rutishauser 2003 Swiss Cherry Flowering Dates, Text or Excel
• Schwartz and Reiter North American Lilac Phenology Data
• Shen et al. 2006 Pacific Decadal Oscillation Reconstruction

Contributing Data

Other Data Archives

• ALP-IMP Multi-centennial climate variability in the Alps based on Instrumental data, Model simulations and Proxy data.
• EURO-CLIMHIST European high-resolution climatic proxy evidence from documentary archives.
• RECLIDO Spanish network of climate reconstruction from documentary sources.

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