Contributors and Co-Authors
MA Antoine Jover who is an experienced, goal-oriented and cooperative software engineer brought the data-base to a good end after he got the job on 1 December, 2014. Prof. em. Dr. Christian Pfister has invested several thousand hours of voluntary work into Euro-Climhist, for the most part after his retirement from teaching and administration in September 2009. Prof. Dr. Christian Rohr, succeeded Prof. Pfister in 2010 as professor for environmental and climate history at Bern University. He successfully promoted the concerns of Euro-Climhist to the administration and to sponsors. The competent administrative expert Hedy Werthmüller was responsible for the accounting and organizational aspects.
The following people assisted in the completion of the data-base over the last years: lic. phil. Kerstin Brunner, Dr. Chantal Camenisch, Katja Graber, lic. phil. Patrick Loretan, Rahel Meier, Dr. Kathleen Pribyl, Dr. Melanie Salvisberg, Dr. phil.-nat. Oliver Wetter and MA Christian Wipf. MA Tamara Terry Widmer established a good understanding of the multiple facets of Euro-Climhist. She is assisted by MA Anna-Pierina Godenzi since 1 June, 2015.
The following persons and institutions made data available for Euro-Climhist or they assisted us in data collection:
Prof. Dr. Rudolf Brázdil and Dr. Martin Možný, University of Brno, provided two very long phenological series from the Czech Republic.
Prof. Dr. Petr Dobrovolný, University of Brno, provided very long series of seasonal temperature and precipitation in the Czech Republic.
Dr. Michel Grenon, Geneva Observatory, CH-1290 Sauverny his advice and the generous provision of archival documents.
Lic. phil. Stefan Hächler, in the context of his MA thesis „Hochwasserereignisse im schweizerischen Alpenraum seit dem Spätmittelalter“ (1991).
Dr. h.c. Hans Rudolf Lavater-Briner, Erlach (BE), provided the (for the first time) complete weather-related records from the diaries of Wolfgang Haller.
Dr. Mikhaël Schwander, WMO, Geneva/Institute of Geography, University of Bern, provided his very long series of daily meteorological situations in Europe since 1763.
Prof. Dr. Andres Tarand, Tallinn, provided his long series of winter temperatures in Estonia.
Dr. Gregor Zenhäusern, Unterbäch (VS), former manager of the Research Institute for the History of the Alpine Area in Brig (VS) provided the evidence collected in the framework of a Swiss National Science Foundation project „Klimageschichte des Wallis 1500-1864“ (2006-2009).
Prof. Dr. Heinz J. Zumbühl, Institute of Geography, University of Bern, and Dr. Samuel Nussbaumer, Bern provided images of glaciers.
Moreover: Dr. Renate Auchmann, University of Bern; Prof. Dr. Stefan Brönnimann, University of Bern; Dr. Norbert Furrer, Bern; Prof. Dr. Harrie-Jan Hendricks-Franssen, Zurich; Dr. Christian Röthlisberger, Grossaffoltern (BE); Dr. This Rutishauser, University of Bern; Dr. Gabriela Schwarz-Zanetti, University of Bern; Dr. Roman Studer, Zurich.
The text of the website was translated by Suzanne Sarah Koch (Payerne), Dr. Corinne Fournier (Bern) and Dr. Laurent Litzenburger (Université de Lorraine, Metz) into French, and by Eveline Dressler (Freiburg im Breisgau) and Silva Cassina-Passardi (Manno, proof-reading) into Italian. The texts were translated by Prof. em. Dr. Christian Pfister and Prof. Dr. Christian Rohr into English; Prof. Dr. Sam White (Ohio State University, Columbus OH) and Dr. des. Alexandra Vlachos (Bern) have style-checked those translations. Dominique Ruffieux (MeteoSwiss, Payerne) reviewed the French translation of the category scheme, whereas Fosco Spinedi (MeteoSwiss, Locarno-Monti) and Dr. Antonio Contino (Università di Palermo) reviewed the translation into Italian.
We are particularly grateful to the Global Climate Observing System (GCOS), MeteoSwiss for its long standing goodwill and the good cooperation. This particularly refers to the former managing director Dr. Gabriela Seiz and her team: Dr. Fabio Fontana, Dr. Nando Foppa, Dr. Jörg Klausen, Dr. Sebastian König, MA Marion Meier, MA Michelle Stalder.
Prof. Dr. Christian Rohr who succeeded Prof. em Dr. Christian Pfister on the chair for Environmental and Climate History at the University of Bern, represented the interests of Euro-Climhist in negotiations with the sponsors and the authorities. The competent administrative expert Hedy Wertmüller was responsible for all accounting and organizational aspects of the project.
