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British Naval Logbooks From the Late Seventeenth Century: New Climatic Information from Old Sources (2005)

History of Meteorology
Volume: 2
Pages: 133--145

Publication Date: 2005
Edition Details: Part of a special section: Diversity in the Global Reconstruction and Representation of Weather and Climate: East, South, West, North
Language: English

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Primary literature (historical sources) Observation Data analysis Meteorology Climate and climatology Historical reconstruction 17th century Great Britain Great Britain. Royal Navy

The recently completed CLIWOC1 project funded by the EU has demonstrated the value of the climatic information to be found so abundantly in old naval logbooks. This project was, however, confined to the period from 1750 to 1850 and, whilst many logbooks, especially in the UK, survive from much earlier times, they were not included in the analysis. This paper takes the opportunity to examine the oldest collection of logbooks that exist in sufficient quantities to provide a daily, regionally-based, series of weather observations and to gauge their value as sources of scientific data and information. Logbooks of this antiquity are those of Royal Navy officers, lieutenants and captains, preserved in the National Maritime Museum at Greenwich, South East London and in the National Archives in Kew, South West London. They cover the period from 1685 onwards that, fortuitously, embraces both a large part of the Late Maunder Minimum and the coldest phase of the so-called Little Ice Age. The character of the data is examined and some preliminary conclusions are drawn regarding the climate of the period.

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Article McNally, Louis K., III; Rohr, Christian (2005) Symposium Editors' Introduction. History of Meteorology (p. 37). unapi

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