A past and present perspective on the European summer vapour pressure deficit

<p>Here, we present the first gridded reconstruction of the European summer vapour pressure deficit (VPD) for the past four centuries (see https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2022-47 for the study).&nbsp;The gridded reconstruction is based on 26 European tree-ring oxygen isotope records and is performed using a Random Forest approach. &nbsp;Furthermore, we provide summer VPD data derived from 20CRV3 for the period 1836 to 2015 (Slivinski et al., 2019).&nbsp;</p> <p>The data is structured as follows:</p> <ul> <li>VPD_final_nested_reconstruction.nc -&gt; contains the summer VPD reconstruction for the past 400 years</li> <li>CE_final_*_.nc -&gt; provides the&nbsp;Coefficient of Efficiency metric for each time slice of the rec.&nbsp;(Nash and Sutcliffe, 1970)</li> <li>VPD_20CR_JJA.nc -&gt;&nbsp;VPD data derived from 20CRV3 for the period 1836 to 2015 (Slivinski et al., 2019)</li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p>