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. 2017 Nov 14:4:170169.
doi: 10.1038/sdata.2017.169.

Early meteorological records from Latin-America and the Caribbean during the 18th and 19th centuries

Fernando Domínguez-Castro  1   2 , José Manuel Vaquero  3   4 , María Cruz Gallego  3   4 , Ana María Marín Farrona  3 , Juan Carlos Antuña-Marrero  5 , Erika Elizabeth Cevallos  6 , Ricardo García Herrera  7   8 , Cristina de la Guía  9 , Raúl David Mejía  6 , José Manuel Naranjo  3 , María Del Rosario Prieto  10 , Luis Enrique Ramos Guadalupe  11 , Lizardo Seiner  12 , Ricardo Machado Trigo  13 , Marcos Villacís  2
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Early meteorological records from Latin-America and the Caribbean during the 18th and 19th centuries

Fernando Domínguez-Castro et al. Sci Data. .

Abstract

This paper provides early instrumental data recovered for 20 countries of Latin-America and the Caribbean (Argentina, Bahamas, Belize, Brazil, British Guiana, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, France (Martinique and Guadalupe), Guatemala, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Puerto Rico, El Salvador and Suriname) during the 18th and 19th centuries. The main meteorological variables retrieved were air temperature, atmospheric pressure, and precipitation, but other variables, such as humidity, wind direction, and state of the sky were retrieved when possible. In total, more than 300,000 early instrumental data were rescued (96% with daily resolution). Especial effort was made to document all the available metadata in order to allow further post-processing. The compilation is far from being exhaustive, but the dataset will contribute to a better understanding of climate variability in the region, and to enlarging the period of overlap between instrumental data and natural/documentary proxies.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no competing financial interests.

Figures

Figure 1
Figure 1. Meteorological measurements recorded in different documentary sources.
(a) O Patriota Jornal Literario, Político e Mercantil do Rio de Janeiro; (b) Anales de la Universidad de Chile; (c) Logbook Vapor Hernán Cortés at San Juan (Puerto Rico) (courtesy of the Archivo Histórico del Real Observatorio de la Armada, Spain).
Figure 2
Figure 2. CHILLA1 archive.
Figure 3
Figure 3. Number of data retrieved by location.
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References

Data Citations

    1. Domínguez-Castro F. 2017. PANGAEA. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.871480 - DOI

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