CLIWOC:: A climatological database for the world's oceans 1750-1854
CLIWOC:: A climatological database for the world's oceans 1750-1854
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DOI:
10.1007/s10584-005-6952-6
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发表时间:
2005-11-01
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4.8
通讯作者:
Koek, FB
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作者:
García-Herrera, R;Können, GP;Koek, FB
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.