We have compiled a meteorological database over the world's oceans by digitizing data from European ship logbooks of voyages in the period 1750-1854. The observations are carefully reviewed and transformed into quantitative data. The chief contents of the database are wind direction and wind force information, from a period without standardized scales. It is found that the information content of these so-called non-instrumental data is much higher than previously believed. The 105-year CLIWOC database extends existing meteorological world ocean databases like ICOADS back in time by a full century. © Springer 2005.
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García-Herrera, R., Können, G. P., Wheeler, D. A., Prieto, M. R., Jones, P. D., & Koek, F. B. (2005, November). CLIWOC: A climatological database for the world’s oceans 1750-1854. Climatic Change. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-005-6952-6
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