Reading

Insights, discoveries and personal observations

Here I collect things I come across while working with weather and climate data that are too interesting to leave as mere bookmarks.

New articles appear at irregular intervals, adding personal observations to the more technical pages of the Climate Chronicle.

Articles

Latest articles

26.10.2026 The 1.5°C target: what does it actually mean? How climate targets emerged, why 1850-1900 is used as the reference period and what the global temperature records show. Read article 19.09.2026Glaciers in the Climate Chronicle: finally integratedNew glacier records from the WGMS combine long-term changes in length with carefully selected Sentinel-2 image comparisons.Read article 03.09.2026 When digital climate data reveal their handwritten origins The University of Graz archive connects digitised station values with handwritten climate sheets from 1890 to 2004. Read article