A historical Southern Ocean climate dataset from whaling ships’ logbooks ...
Historical ship logbooks provide vital historic meteorological observations in the Southern Ocean, one of the largest climate-data deficient regions on the Earth. Christian Salvesen Whaling Company logbooks from whaling ships operating in the Southern Ocean, starting from the 1930s through the 1950s...
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ftdatacite:10.17863/cam.36482 2024-02-27T08:45:37+00:00 A historical Southern Ocean climate dataset from whaling ships’ logbooks ... Teleti, Praveen Rees, WG Dowdeswell, J Wilkinson, C 2019 https://dx.doi.org/10.17863/cam.36482 https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/289220 en eng Wiley open.access Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode cc-by-4.0 http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2 article-journal ScholarlyArticle JournalArticle Article 2019 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.17863/cam.36482 2024-02-01T14:59:36Z Historical ship logbooks provide vital historic meteorological observations in the Southern Ocean, one of the largest climate-data deficient regions on the Earth. Christian Salvesen Whaling Company logbooks from whaling ships operating in the Southern Ocean, starting from the 1930s through the 1950s, are examined. Meteorological information contained in these logbooks has been extracted to produce a historical climate dataset. We discuss various instructions recommended by the British Admiralty to observe and record weather conditions on board whaling ships. Statistical tests were used to flag erroneous values and corrections were made using neighbouring values. Meteorological parameters such as air pressure, air and sea temperature and wind force on the Beaufort scale were standardised, converting imperial to metric units. The data were structured according to the internationally accepted International Maritime Meteorological Archive (IMMA) format, which includes the most commonly reported meteorological ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Southern Ocean DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) Salvesen ENVELOPE(-61.333,-61.333,-64.400,-64.400) Southern Ocean |
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Historical ship logbooks provide vital historic meteorological observations in the Southern Ocean, one of the largest climate-data deficient regions on the Earth. Christian Salvesen Whaling Company logbooks from whaling ships operating in the Southern Ocean, starting from the 1930s through the 1950s, are examined. Meteorological information contained in these logbooks has been extracted to produce a historical climate dataset. We discuss various instructions recommended by the British Admiralty to observe and record weather conditions on board whaling ships. Statistical tests were used to flag erroneous values and corrections were made using neighbouring values. Meteorological parameters such as air pressure, air and sea temperature and wind force on the Beaufort scale were standardised, converting imperial to metric units. The data were structured according to the internationally accepted International Maritime Meteorological Archive (IMMA) format, which includes the most commonly reported meteorological ... |
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Teleti, Praveen Rees, WG Dowdeswell, J Wilkinson, C |
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Teleti, Praveen Rees, WG Dowdeswell, J Wilkinson, C A historical Southern Ocean climate dataset from whaling ships’ logbooks ... |
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Teleti, Praveen Rees, WG Dowdeswell, J Wilkinson, C |
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A historical Southern Ocean climate dataset from whaling ships’ logbooks ... |
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A historical Southern Ocean climate dataset from whaling ships’ logbooks ... |
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A historical Southern Ocean climate dataset from whaling ships’ logbooks ... |
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A historical Southern Ocean climate dataset from whaling ships’ logbooks ... |
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A historical Southern Ocean climate dataset from whaling ships’ logbooks ... |
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historical southern ocean climate dataset from whaling ships’ logbooks ... |
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https://dx.doi.org/10.17863/cam.36482 https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/289220 |
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