Articles | Volume 18, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-18-1105-2025
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-18-1105-2025
Research article
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04 Mar 2025
Research article |  | 04 Mar 2025

Digitization and calibration of historical solar absorption infrared spectra from the Jungfraujoch site

Jamal Makkor, Mathias Palm, Matthias Buschmann, Emmanuel Mahieu, Martyn P. Chipperfield, and Justus Notholt

Data sets

Digitized paper based grating spectra from 1950/51 Jamal Makkor et al. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14537672

Model code and software

Historical spectra digitizer Jamal Makkor https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11204115

SpectraViewer Jamal Makkor https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11058350

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Short summary
During the years 1950 and 1951, Marcel Migeotte took regular solar measurements in the form of paper rolls at the Jungfraujoch site. These historical spectra proved to be valuable for atmospheric research and needed to be saved for posterity. Therefore, a digitization method which used image-processing techniques was developed to extract them from the historical paper rolls. This allowed them to be saved in a machine-readable format that is easily accessible to the scientific community.
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