Southern Ocean sea ice, icebergs and meteorological data from maritime sources for the period 1929 to 1940.

The data set contains information on weather, sea state, sea ice and icebergs recovered from the logbooks, catch books, notebooks and meteorological journals from a number of vessels during their voyages to the Southern Ocean and Antarctica. This work builds on the earlier phase of the project “Hist...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Divine, Dmitry, Divina, Svetlana
Format: Dataset
Language:unknown
Published: Norwegian Polar Institute 2022
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Online Access:http://data.npolar.no/dataset/eb997ced-500d-4575-8ac6-b1dfea1959f6
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Summary:The data set contains information on weather, sea state, sea ice and icebergs recovered from the logbooks, catch books, notebooks and meteorological journals from a number of vessels during their voyages to the Southern Ocean and Antarctica. This work builds on the earlier phase of the project “Historical sea ice data from the Southern Ocean” aimed at recovering climate and sea ice data from Norwegian whaling vessels (Divine et al., 2021). The extended database comprises a collection of 27 documents of various types covering the period of 1932-1940 was keyed and translated. The documents are associated with vessels that was operated by Norwegian whaling companies or British companies with Norwegian crews. Details on data sources, methods used and basic analysis conducted on the data are found in the attached project report file.