A historical Southern Ocean climate dataset from whaling ships’ logbooks

• Published in: Geoscience Data Journal
• Main Authors: Teleti, Praveen R., Rees, W. G., Dowdeswell, Julian A., Wilkinson, Clive
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Southern Ocean; Weddell Sea; Weddell; Salvesen
• Online Access: https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/71569/; https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/71569/1/Teleti_et_al_2019_Geoscience_Data_Journal.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1002/gdj3.65

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...