The existence of abundant meteorological data from logbooks of
different European countries constitutes a common and invaluable
heritage of the most outstanding scientific interest. The analysis
of the logbooks content will contribute to characterise climate
during XVIII th and XIX th centuries and to asses climate change.
These logbooks are an unique source of information which can not
be obtained from any other way and will help to understand climate
variability for a period and area (the oceans) with scarce data
until now. The availability of such data to the scientific community
will contribute to a better detection of climate change. The main
aim of the project is to produce and make freely available for the
scientific community the world’s firsts daily oceanic climatological
database for the period 1750 to 1850. The database will provide
a better knowledge of oceanic climate variability over the study
period. Data will be obtained from documentary sources, mostly logbooks
records, which are kept in a number of European archives in Spain,
Britain, Holland and France. The original records will be transcribed
and introduced into a computer based database.
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