Articles | Volume 16
https://doi.org/10.5194/asr-16-175-2019
https://doi.org/10.5194/asr-16-175-2019
19 Aug 2019
 | 19 Aug 2019

Comparison of manual and automatic daily sunshine duration measurements at German climate reference stations

Lisa Hannak, Karsten Friedrich, Florian Imbery, and Frank Kaspar

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Interactive open access to climate observations from Germany F. Kaspar, F. Kratzenstein, and A. K. Kaiser-Weiss https://doi.org/10.5194/asr-16-75-2019

Open Data Server Climate Data Center https://opendata.dwd.de/climate_environment/CDC/observations_germany

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Short summary
In order to analyze the impact on long time series by the transition from manual to automatic sunshine duration devices, parallel measurements of German climate reference stations are used. The different measurement principles (glass sphere and photodiode) cause systematic differences between the observations. With a linear regression model (used to adjust the automatic measurements) we want to prevent breaks in long time series of daily sunshine duration.