Scientific Data (Oct 2024)

European pollen reanalysis, 1980–2022, for alder, birch, and olive

  • Mikhail Sofiev,
  • Julia Palamarchuk,
  • Rostislav Kouznetsov,
  • Tamuna Abramidze,
  • Beverley Adams-Groom,
  • Célia M. Antunes,
  • Arturo H. Ariño,
  • Maximilian Bastl,
  • Jordina Belmonte,
  • Uwe E. Berger,
  • Maira Bonini,
  • Nicolas Bruffaerts,
  • Jeroen Buters,
  • Paloma Cariñanos,
  • Sevcan Celenk,
  • Valentina Ceriotti,
  • Athanasios Charalampopoulos,
  • Yolanda Clewlow,
  • Bernard Clot,
  • Aslog Dahl,
  • Athanasios Damialis,
  • Concepción De Linares,
  • Letty A. De Weger,
  • Lukas Dirr,
  • Agneta Ekebom,
  • Yalda Fatahi,
  • María Fernández González,
  • Delia Fernández González,
  • Santiago Fernández-Rodríguez,
  • Carmen Galán,
  • Björn Gedda,
  • Regula Gehrig,
  • Carmi Geller Bernstein,
  • Nestor Gonzalez Roldan,
  • Lukasz Grewling,
  • Lenka Hajkova,
  • Risto Hänninen,
  • François Hentges,
  • Juha Jantunen,
  • Evgeny Kadantsev,
  • Idalia Kasprzyk,
  • Mathilde Kloster,
  • Katarzyna Kluska,
  • Mieke Koenders,
  • Janka Lafférsová,
  • Poliana Mihaela Leru,
  • Agnieszka Lipiec,
  • Maria Louna-Korteniemi,
  • Donát Magyar,
  • Barbara Majkowska-Wojciechowska,
  • Mika Mäkelä,
  • Mirjana Mitrovic,
  • Dorota Myszkowska,
  • Gilles Oliver,
  • Pia Östensson,
  • Rosa Pérez-Badia,
  • Krystyna Piotrowska-Weryszko,
  • Marje Prank,
  • Ewa Maria Przedpelska-Wasowicz,
  • Sanna Pätsi,
  • F. Javier Rodríguyez Rajo,
  • Hallvard Ramfjord,
  • Joanna Rapiejko,
  • Victoria Rodinkova,
  • Jesús Rojo,
  • Luis Ruiz-Valenzuela,
  • Ondrej Rybnicek,
  • Annika Saarto,
  • Ingrida Sauliene,
  • Andreja Kofol Seliger,
  • Elena Severova,
  • Valentina Shalaboda,
  • Branko Sikoparija,
  • Pilvi Siljamo,
  • Joana Soares,
  • Olga Sozinova,
  • Anders Stangel,
  • Barbara Stjepanović,
  • Erik Teinemaa,
  • Svyatoslav Tyuryakov,
  • M. Mar Trigo,
  • Andreas Uppstu,
  • Mart Vill,
  • Julius Vira,
  • Nicolas Visez,
  • Tiina Vitikainen,
  • Despoina Vokou,
  • Elżbieta Weryszko-Chmielewska,
  • Ari Karppinen

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-03686-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 19

Abstract

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Abstract The dataset presents a 43 year-long reanalysis of pollen seasons for three major allergenic genera of trees in Europe: alder (Alnus), birch (Betula), and olive (Olea). Driven by the meteorological reanalysis ERA5, the atmospheric composition model SILAM predicted the flowering period and calculated the Europe-wide dispersion pattern of pollen for the years 1980–2022. The model applied an extended 4-dimensional variational data assimilation of in-situ observations of aerobiological networks in 34 European countries to reproduce the inter-annual variability and trends of pollen production and distribution. The control variable of the assimilation procedure was the total pollen release during each flowering season, implemented as an annual correction factor to the mean pollen production. The dataset was designed as an input to studies on climate-induced and anthropogenically driven changes in the European vegetation, biodiversity monitoring, bioaerosol modelling and assessment, as well as, in combination with intra-seasonal observations, for health-related applications.