A historical Southern Ocean climate dataset from whaling ships’ logbooks

• Published in: Geoscience Data Journal
• Main Authors: Praveen R. Teleti, W. G. Rees, Julian A. Dowdeswell, Clive Wilkinson
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2019
• Subjects: Antarctica; data rescue; historical climate observations; Southern Ocean; whaling; Meteorology. Climatology; QC851-999; Geology; QE1-996.5; Weddell Sea; Weddell; Salvesen; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1002/gdj3.65; https://doaj.org/article/07acd3ad0b45493ab794a128f881ad4b

Abstract 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...