Recovery of logbooks and international marine data: The RECLAIM project

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 968-979

  Wilkinson, Clive ^a,b   Woodruff, Scott D ^c   Brohan, Philip ^d   Claesson, Stefan ^e   Freeman, Eric ^a,f   Koek, Frits ^g   Lubker, Sandra J ^c   Marzin, Catherine ^c   Wheeler, Dennis ^h  

^a NOAA Climate Database Modernization Program (CDMP)   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^f Sourcecorp   (United States)

^g ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

^h UNIVERSITY OF SUNDERLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Archives; Data rescue; Digitisation; Marine meteorological data; Metadata; Ship's logbooks

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ARCHIVES; BAROMETRIC PRESSURE; CLIMATE STUDIES; DATA RECORDS; DATA RESCUE; DIGITISATION; EXPERT-ASSISTANCE; FINNISH; HISTORICAL RECORDS; MARINE METEOROLOGICAL DATA; MARINE RECORD; PROJECT WEBSITE; REFERENCE LIST; ROYAL NAVY; SEA SURFACES; SHIP MOVEMENT; TWENTIETH CENTURY; WEATHER OBSERVATIONS;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; METADATA; METEOROLOGY; SHIPS;

RECOVERY;

AIR TEMPERATURE; DIGITIZATION; DOCUMENTARY SOURCE; FISHERY; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; MARINE RECORD; METEOROLOGY; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; WEATHER; WIND; WORLD WIDE WEB;

UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79251516132     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.2102     Document Type: Article

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