Open AccessCLIWOC: A Climatological Database for the World's Oceans 1750–1854
Author(s) -
Ricardo GarcíaHerrera,
G. P. Können,
Dennis Wheeler,
M. R. Prieto,
P. D. Jones,
F. B. Koek
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
climatic change
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.546
H-Index - 188
eISSN - 1573-1480
pISSN - 0165-0009
DOI - 10.1007/s10584-005-6952-6
Subject(s) - database , period (music) , meteorology , environmental science , climatology , history , geography , computer science , geology , physics , acoustics
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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