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The weather of the First Fleet voyage to Botany Bay, 1787–1788
Author(s) -
Gergis Joëlle,
Brohan Philip,
Allan Rob
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
weather
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.467
H-Index - 40
eISSN - 1477-8696
pISSN - 0043-1656
DOI - 10.1002/wea.608
Subject(s) - queen (butterfly) , library science , bay , history , art history , management , engineering , archaeology , computer science , hymenoptera , botany , economics , biology
Our understanding of recent climate change hinges on the quality and length of histori-cal weather observations. In the best-observed regions of the world around 150 years of direct instrumental observa-tions are available for climate research, but in large parts of the Southern Hemisphere records only cover the past 50–100 years. This is despite the fact that weather obser-vations were routinely recorded by explora-tion, naval and merchant ship crews travelling the world during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries (Garcia Herrera