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CLIWOC: A Climatological Database for the World's Oceans 1750–1854 |
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| Authors: | R García-Herrera G P Können D A Wheeler M R Prieto P D Jones F B Koek |
| Institution: | (1) Dto. Física de la Tierra II, Facultad de Físicas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Ciudad Universitaria, 28040 Madrid, Spain;(2) Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI), PO Box 201, 3730 AE De Bilt, The Netherlands;(3) School of Health, Natural and Social Sciences, University of Sunderland, Green Terrace, Sunderland, SR1 3PZ, U.K.;(4) Instituto Argentino de Nivología y Glaciología, Calle A. Ruiz Leal s/n, 5500 Mendoza, Argentina;(5) Climatic Research Unit (CRU), University of East Anglia, Norwich, NR4 7TJ, U.K. |
| Abstract: | We have compiled a meteorological database over the world's oceans by digitizing data from European ship logbooks of voyages in the period 1750–1854. The observations are carefully reviewed and transformed into quantitative data. The chief contents of the database are wind direction and wind force information, from a period without standardized scales. It is found that the information content of these so-called non-instrumental data is much higher than previously believed. The 105-year CLIWOC database extends existing meteorological world ocean databases like ICOADS back in time by a full century. |
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