H.W.M. Olbers measurements of air temperature in Bremen from 1803 to 1822

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We rediscovered a temperature time series from Heinrich W. M. Olbers. Heinrich W. M. Olbers measured in Bremen, Sandstrasse 15, in Germany from 1803 to 1821 three times a day (7 am, 1-2 pm and 10 pm) the temperature at his window of his study, which is up to 16 m above the zero marking at the Weserbrücke. The temperature values from 1814 are missing. We got the temperature values from different sources in the Olbers estate.We calculated the daily mean and digitized it in various plots. A very small trend towards cooling is apparent in the data which might be insignificant. But a clear seasonal trend was identifiable: the late winter and the early spring were becoming warmer, while the summer and early autumn became cooler. The average temperature in Bremen was 8.3606 deg C at that time. Additionally we combined the newly discovered Heinrich W. M. Olbers temperature data and the Heinemann and Bätjer data to see whether there are great differences between these two time series. Although the temperatures of Heinrich W. M. Olbers are in general cooler than the Heinemann and Bätjer data they fit together.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.494520
Related Identifier https://store.pangaea.de/Publications/HeinzeB_et_al_2006/BHeinze_et_al_2006.pdf
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.494520
Provenance
Creator Heinze, Birte; Olbers, Dirk ORCID logo; König-Langlo, Gert ORCID logo; Olbers, Heinrich W M
Publisher PANGAEA
Contributor Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven
Publication Year 2006
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
OpenAccess true
Representation
Resource Type Dataset
Format text/tab-separated-values
Size 1449 data points
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (8.811 LON, 53.075 LAT); Bremen, Germany
Temporal Coverage Begin 1803-01-15T00:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 1822-03-15T00:00:00Z