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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.
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García-Herrera, R., Können, G.P., Wheeler, D.A. et al. CLIWOC: A Climatological Database for the World's Oceans 1750–1854. Climatic Change 73, 1–12 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-005-6952-6
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