1. Introduction Recovering historical instrumental climate data is crucial for identifying long-term climate variability and change, putting present climate into context and constraining future climate projections (...1. Introduction Recovering historical instrumental climate data is crucial for identifying long-term climate variability and change, putting present climate into context and constraining future climate projections (Brunet and Jones, 2011). In other words, to understand the future, we need to improve our understanding of the past.展开更多
基金the SEARCH projectthe Australian Meteorological Association+3 种基金funded by an Australian Research Council Linkage grant (Grant No. LP099015)supported by a combination of funding from the Joint BEIS/Defra Met Office Hadley Centre Climate Programme (GA01101)the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) European Reanalysis of Global Climate Observations 2 (ERA-CLIM2) projectthe Climate Science for Service Partnership (CSSP) China under the Newton Fund
文摘1. Introduction Recovering historical instrumental climate data is crucial for identifying long-term climate variability and change, putting present climate into context and constraining future climate projections (Brunet and Jones, 2011). In other words, to understand the future, we need to improve our understanding of the past.