Meteorological Time Series Aligned with Projected Temperature Changes

DOI

This dataset provides 50 years of seasonal synthetic hourly time series for five meteorological variables: incoming shortwave radiation, total precipitation, relative humidity, 2-meter air temperature and wind speed.

The data are generated from observational records (1990–present) from nine MeteoSwiss stations (ABO, BAS, BER, LUG, PUY, SCU, SIO, STG, WFJ). We use a sampling approach that preserves both the temporal structure and inter-variable dependencies. Specifically, the time series are constructed by drawing 7-day blocks from historical observations, ensuring realistic short-term variability and maintaining the physical coherence between variables.

The synthetic sequences are constrained to follow daily temperature change trajectories corresponding to three future climate scenarios for the period 2040–2070: RCP2.6, RCP8.5 and RCP0: a counterfactual scenario with no long-term warming trend, but with temperature variability consistent with the RCP2.6 one. The temperature constraints are derived from projections downscaled at the staiton level, available at: https://www.envidat.ch/#/metadata/climate-change-scenarios-at-hourly-resolution

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.16904/envidat.680
Metadata Access https://www.envidat.ch/api/action/package_show?id=6d0dc5ad-3580-4563-8924-d3adc358116d
Provenance
Creator Pauline, Rivoire, 0000-0002-1008-0986; Tatjana, Milojevic, 0000-0001-9118-7103; Fanny, Kristianti, 0009-0007-7656-7416; Michael, Lehning, 0000-0002-8442-0875
Publisher EnviDat
Publication Year 2025
Funding Reference SPEED2ZERO, a Joint Initiative co-financed by the ETH Board, 10295
Rights cc-by; Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0)
OpenAccess true
Contact envidat(at)wsl.ch
Representation
Language English
Resource Type Dataset
Version 1.0
Discipline Environmental Sciences
Spatial Coverage (5.956W, 45.818S, 10.492E, 47.808N); Switzerland
Temporal Point 2025-07-25T00:00:00Z