Abstract
Daily meteorological observations have been made at the old astronomical observatory in Stockholm since 1754. Complete daily mean series of air temperature and sea level pressure are reconstructed from the observational data for 1756–1998. The temperature and pressure series are reconstructed and homogenized with the aid of metadata, statistical tests and comparisons with data from other stations. Comparisons with independently reconstructed daily series for nearby Uppsala (1722–1998) show that the quality of the daily Stockholm data is good, although the reliability is lower before the mid-19th century. The daily temperature data show that the colder winter mean temperatures of the late 18th to early 19th centuries were connected with a particularly high frequency of very cold winter days. The warmer summers of the same period are more connected with a general shift of the temperature distribution towards higher temperatures than in the late 20th century.
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Moberg, A., Bergström, H., Krigsman, J.R., Svanered, O. (2002). Daily Air Temperature and Pressure Series for Stockholm (1756–1998). In: Camuffo, D., Jones, P. (eds) Improved Understanding of Past Climatic Variability from Early Daily European Instrumental Sources. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0371-1_7
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