Publication Type

Journal Article

Version

publishedVersion

Publication Date

11-2017

Abstract

Initiatives to recover (sourcing, imaging, digitizing) historic datasets for generating more accurate longterm climate models have only gained momentum over the last decade, despite a long precedent of compelling arguments as to the value of historic weather observations (Le Roy Ladurie, 1972; Lamb, 1977). Although such work is relatively well established in Europe, the United States, China, and Japan; Southeast Asia currently has a dearth of data rescue initiatives with a long historical focus. The reasons behind this include a perception of the paucity of surviving data; the scattered nature of data due to shifts between colonial rule and independence and, later regime changes; a lack of local resources to develop data recovery projects. By way of example, the Southeast Asian Climate Assessment & Dataset (SACA&D) Digitisasi Data Historis (DiDaH) project, now completed, was limited by the fact that the bulk of observations recovered and digitized were in the post 1940s-50s period (apart from Indonesia in the South East Asian region) and, their data rescue was directed at National Meteorological Service (NMS) records only, with generally a heavy focus on temperature and precipitation data. ACRE SEA has a wider scope, with a longer historical timeframe (especially with a pre 1940s-50s observations focus) and broader record collection base, using archives, libraries, and online sources across the region and internationally. In fact, the SACA&D DiDaH project.

Keywords

Climate, data recovery, dynamical reconstructions, historic weather, re-analyses

Discipline

Asian Studies | Environmental Sciences | Geographic Information Sciences

Research Areas

Integrative Research Areas

Publication

APN Science Bulletin

Volume

7

Issue

1

First Page

1

Last Page

5

ISSN

2522-7971

Identifier

10.30852/sb.2017.179

Publisher

Asia-Pacific Network

Copyright Owner and License

Author-CC-NC

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.30852/sb.2017.179

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