Reconstructing sunshine duration and solar radiation long-term evolution for Italy: a challenge for quality control and homogenisation procedures |
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| Veronica Manara, Michele Brunetti, Maurizio Maugeri |
- Abstract:
- In the last two decades, the scientific community has become aware of the fact that the real climate signal in original series of meteorological data is generally hidden behind non-climatic noise caused by a number of factors. Time series of meteorological data can therefore not be used for climate research without facing this issue. In this context, we have recently set up a database of Italian sunshine duration and solar radiation daily records and we have subjected them to a detailed quality check and homogenization procedure. Moreover, as the records are rather sparse and a significant fraction of them have wide gaps, we completed the data and set up a procedure in order to obtain at first a gridded version of the dataset and then average records that are representative of the entire Italian territory. The paper will highlight the main steps of the methodology that allowed us to get these average quality-checked and homogenized records and will discuss some open issues.
- Download:
- IMEKO-TC10-2016-002.pdf
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- Event details
- IMEKO TC:
- TC10
- Event name:
- TC10 Workshop on Technical Diagnostics 2016
- Title:
14th IMEKO TC10 Workshop “New Perspectives in Measurements, Tools and Techniques for system’s reliability, maintainability and safety”
- Place:
- Milano, ITALY
- Time:
- 27 June 2016 - 28 June 2016