AUTHIST - Historical gridded monthly climate data for Austria

The long-term historical gridded dataset HistAlp provides homogenized instrumental data from 1780-2014 with a 5’ x 5’ spatial resolution and monthly timesteps, for the domain of the European Alps. (Auer et al., 2007) Data available here: https://data.hub.geosphere.at/group/histalp The gridded observational dataset SPARTACUS is available for Austria and some adjacent regions in neighboring countries with a spatial resolution of 1×1 km and a daily temporal resolution from 1961-2020. (Hiebl and Frei, 2016). Data available here: https://data.hub.geosphere.at/dataset/spartacus-v2-1d-1km Both datasets were combined by regridding the lower-resolution HistAlp data to the SPARTACUS grid, and calculating monthly adjustment factors for the common period 1961-1990 on each grid cell. Those factors are applied to the HistAlp data for the period 1780-1960, and from 1961 to 2020 the unmodified SPARTACUS data is used. The method is described in detail in Scharnhorst et al. (2023). Auer, I., Böhm, R., Jurković, A., Lipa, W., Orlik, A., Potzmann, R., Schöner, W., Ungersböck, M., Matulla, C., Briffa, K., Jones, P., Efthymiadis, D., Brunetti, M., Nanni, T., Maugeri, M., Mercalli, L., Mestre, O., Moisselin, J.-M., Begert, M., … Nieplova, E. (2007). HISTALP—historical instrumental climatological surface time series of the Greater Alpine Region. International Journal of Climatology, 27(1), 17–46. https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.1377 Hiebl, J., & Frei, C. (2016). Daily temperature grids for Austria since 1961—Concept, creation and applicability. Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 124(1–2), 161–178. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00704-015-1411-4 Scharnhorst, V. S., Thierolf, K., Neumayer, J., Becsi, B., Formayer, H., Lanner, J., Ockermüller, E., Mirwald, A., König, B., Kriechbaum, M., Meimberg, H., Meyer, P., Rupprecht, C., & Pachinger, B. (2023). Changes in Community Composition and Functional Traits of Bumblebees in an Alpine Ecosystem Relate to Climate Warming. Biology, 12(2), 316. https://doi.org/10.3390/biology12020316