Linden Ashcroft

The world's longest known parallel temperature dataset: A comparison between daily Glaisher and Stevenson screen temperature data at Adelaide, Australia, 1887-1947

Linden Ashcroft, Blair Trewin, Mac Benoy, Darren Ray, Catherine Courtney

Journal article  |  2021  |  INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY

Weather observing stations are subject to changes in instrumentation, location and surrounding environment over time. Parallel obs..

Climate indices in historical climate reconstructions: a global state of the art

David J Nash, George CD Adamson, Linden Ashcroft, Martin Bauch, Chantal Camenisch, Dagomar Degroot, Joelle Gergis, Adrian Jusopovic, Thomas Labbe, Kuan-Hui Elaine Lin, Sharon D Nicholson, Qing Pei, Maria del Rosario Prieto, Ursula Rack, Facundo Rojas, Sam White

Journal article  |  2021  |  CLIMATE OF THE PAST

Narrative evidence contained within historical documents and inscriptions provides an important record of climate variability for ..

A historical climate dataset for southwestern Australia, 1830-1875

Joelle Gergis, Zak Baillie, Stefan Ingallina, Linden Ashcroft, Tessa Ellwood

Journal article  |  2021  |  INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY

Southwestern Australia is a high priority area for climate research as there has been a significant, anthropogenically influenced ..

An Evaluation of the Performance of the Twentieth Century Reanalysis Version 3

LC Slivinski, GP Compo, PD Sardeshmukh, JS Whitaker, C McColl, RJ Allan, P Brohan, X Yin, CA Smith, LJ Spencer, RS Vose, M Rohrer, RP Conroy, DC Schuster, JJ Kennedy, L Ashcroft, S Broennimann, M Brunet, D Camuffo, R Cornes, et al.

Journal article  |  2021  |  JOURNAL OF CLIMATE

The performance of a new historical reanalysis, the NOAA–CIRES–DOE Twentieth Century Reanalysis version 3 (20CRv3), is evaluated v..

A historical perspective on Australian temperature extremes

Joelle Gergis, Linden Ashcroft, Penny Whetton

Journal article  |  2020  |  CLIMATE DYNAMICS

Global temperature increases are most clearly detected in the shifting distribution of extreme events. Australia’s warming climate..

Revisiting the 1888 centennial drought

MEH Ritman, LC Ashcroft

Journal article  |  2020  |  Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria

Droughts are a key feature of Australia's climate and can lead to water shortages, crop failure and economic instability. Historic..

The Australian Science Communicators conference 2020

Linden Ashcroft, Mia Cobb, Lisa Bailey, Jenny Martin, Scott Daniel

Journal article  |  2020  |  JCOM-JOURNAL OF SCIENCE COMMUNICATION

This special issue of JCOM features six commentary articles from the research stream of the Australian Science Communicators confe..

Unlocking Pre-1850 Instrumental Meteorological Records: A Global Inventory

Stefan Broennimann, Rob Allan, Linden Ashcroft, Saba Baer, Mariano Barriendos, Rudolf Brazdil, Yuri Brugnara, Manola Brunet, Michele Brunetti, Barbara Chimani, Richard Cornes, Fernando Dominguez-Castro, Janusz Filipiak, Dimitra Founda, Ricardo Garcia Herrera, Joelle Gergis, Stefan Grab, Lisa Hannak, Heli Huhtamaa, Kim S Jacobsen, et al.

Journal article  |  2019  |  BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY

A global inventory of early instrumental meteorological measurements is compiled that comprises thousands of mostly nondigitized s..

Meteorological observations for Eversleigh Station, near Armidale, New South Wales, Australia: 1877-1922

Howard Bridgman, Linden Ashcroft, Ken Thornton, Gionni Di Gravio, William Oates

Journal article  |  2019  |  GEOSCIENCE DATA JOURNAL

Historical weather observations on the daily scale are vital for the improvement of reanalysis products and the analysis of long-t..

Towards a more reliable historical reanalysis: Improvements for version 3 of the Twentieth Century Reanalysis system

Laura C Slivinski, Gilbert P Compo, Jeffrey S Whitaker, Prashant D Sardeshmukh, Benjamin S Giese, Chesley McColl, Rob Allan, Xungang Yin, Russell Vose, Holly Titchner, John Kennedy, Lawrence J Spencer, Linden Ashcroft, Stefan Bronnimann, Manola Brunet, Dario Camuffo, Richard Cornes, Thomas A Cram, Richard Crouthamel, Fernando Dominguez-Castro, et al.

Journal article  |  2019  |  QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY

Historical reanalyses that span more than a century are needed for a wide range of studies, from understanding large-scale climate..