Monitoring - Meteorology Advanced

Ancient Atmospheric Measurements

This Note presents a set of articles prepared by Prof. Dario Camuffo who has studied ancient records of atmospheric measurements. Prof. Camuffo's publication list is found here.

Historical temperature – pressure – precipitation – humidity records

• History of the Long Series of Daily Air Temperature in Padova (1725–1998)
• Corrections of Systematic Errors, Data Homogenisation and Climatic Analysis of the Padova Pressure Series (1725–1999)
• The earliest daily barometric pressure readings in Italy: Pisa ad 1657–1658 and Modena ad 1694, and the weather over Europe
• 500-year temperature reconstruction in the Mediterranean Basin by means of documentary data and instrumental observations
• Earliest instrumental temperature record recovered in Italy
• The earliest temperature observations in the world: the Medici Network (1654–1670)
• The world’s earliest instrumental temperature records, from 1632 to 1648, claimed by G. Libri, are reality or myth?
• Western Mediterranean precipitation over the last 300 years from instrumental observations
• Early hygrometric observations in Padua, Italy, from 1794 to 1826: the Chiminello goose quill hygrometer versus the de Saussure hair hygrometer
• The Stancari air thermometer and the 1715–1737 record in Bologna, Italy
• Temperature observations in Bologna, Italy, from 1715 to 1815: a comparison with other contemporary series and an overview of three centuries of changing climate
• The Beccari series of precipitation in Bologna, Italy, from 1723 to 1765
• Temperature observations in Florence, Italy, after the end of the Medici Network (1654–1670): the Grifoni record (1751–1766)
• Three centuries of daily precipitation in Padua, Italy, 1713–2018: History, relocations, gaps, homogeneity and raw data
• Three centuries of daily precipitation in Padua, Italy, 1713-2018: History, relocations, gaps, homogeneity and raw data - Supplementary Material
• Daily temperature observations in Florence at the mid-eighteenth century: the Martini series (1756–1775)

Note prepared by P. Zannetti (1/2022). For corrections or expansions please contact us.