Hourly Observations and Climate Data, Including Rainfall Data in Transcaucasia,for Cities in the Russian Empire (1813-1918)
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NCL00096_98
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Summary
Abstract:
The Russian Empire climate data resides in 4 books, 'Memoire Sur La Temperature Moyenne De Plusieurs Points De L'Empire De Russie' (C/db K96); 'Observations Meteorologiques et Magnetiques Faites Dans L'Empire De Russie' (C/db K96m); 'Memoires De L'Academie Imperiale Des Sciences De Saint-Petersbourg' (C/db K96o); and 'Resumes Des Observations Meteorologiques Faites Dans L'Etendue De L'Empire ... De Russie' (C/db K96r), all written in French. The data contained in these books are hourly surface observations, daily, monthly, seasonal, and annual surface climatic data, and some geomagnetic data for selected cities in the Russian Empire from 1813 to 1836. Parameters included in the hourly observations are pressure, air temperature, cloudiness, precipitation, winds, vapor pressure, and the geomagnetic variables of inclination, azimuth, absolute declination, and magnetic declination. The only daily variable is mean temperature. It is calculated for each month and averaged over the period. Monthly parameters for each month are the following: mean pressure, temperature, humidity, and winds; mean maximum and minimum pressure and temperature; absolute maximum and minimum pressure and temperature; number of days of fog, rain, snow, frost, thunderstorms, hail, clear skies, partly cloudy skies, and cloudy skies; precipitation totals; and wind frequency. Monthly parameters averaged over the period are mean temperature, mean maximum and minimum temperature, and wind frequency. Wind frequency and mean temperature are averaged seasonally and annually. Additional variables that can be found in these data are hottest and coldest days of each year, number of days that a river or lake is ice-covered, earliest and latest frost, first snowfall, and duration of the winter. The Transcaucasia rainfall data resides in 1 book, 'Precipitation in Transcaucasia' (C/db K76) written in Russian, English notes. The data contained in this book are monthly, seasonal, and annual precipitation data for Transcaucasia in Russia from 1848 to 1918. Precipitation parameters averaged over the period and for each individual month included in these data are the following: absolute maximum in 24 hours for a month; monthly totals; and monthly number of days with hail, snow and precipitation of a certain intensity. Precipitation variables averaged only for the period 1848 to 1918 are mean monthly and seasonal precipitation, monthly probability of precipitation, and mean monthly number of showers. These books are part of the foreign meteorological data collection held by the NOAA Central Library in Washington, DC. Information in this collection dates back to the 18th century for daily, monthly, seasonal, and annual tabular summaries, and the 19th century for weather maps. These data are the result of foreign exchange agreements, but the collection has not been updated since 1983.
Geographic Coverage
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Spatial coordinates
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N: 70.0
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S: 35.0
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E: 175.0
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W: 20.0
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Temporal Coverage
Start Date:
2002-04-30
Stop Date:
2006-04-01
Data Center
National Snow and Ice Data Center
Data Center URL:
http://nsidc.org
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NSIDC
USER SERVICES
Phone:
+1 (303) 492-6199
Fax:
+1 (303) 492-2468
Email:
nsidc at nsidc.org
Contact Address:
National Snow and Ice Data Center
CIRES, 449 UCB
University of Colorado
City:
Boulder
Province or State:
CO
Postal Code:
80309-0449
Country:
USA
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Personnel
Role:
INVESTIGATOR
Phone:
+45 35 32 25 00
Email:
hasse at norrebrogaard.dk
City:
Koebenhavn K
Postal Code:
1350
Country:
Denmark
Role:
INVESTIGATOR
Phone:
45 38 14 20 00
Fax:
45 38 14 20 50
Email:
obo at geus.dk
Contact Address:
GEUS, Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland
Oester Voldgade 10
City:
Koebenhavn K
Postal Code:
1350
Country:
Denmark
Role:
INVESTIGATOR
Phone:
79023320
Email:
hanne.christiansen at unis.no
Email:
hhc at server1.geogr.ku.dk
Contact Address:
University Centre in Svalbard
PB 156
City:
Longyearbyen
Province or State:
Svalbard
Postal Code:
9171
Country:
Norway
Publications/References
Olesen, O.B. 1967a. Ground temperature measurements in West Greenland. The Geological Survey of Greenland, Report no. 15, 25-26. Olesen, O.B. 1967b. Oprettelse af stationer til maaling af jordtemperaturer i Holsteinsborg og Soendre Stroemfjord. Report Greenland Geological Survey, 19 p. In Danish.
Van Tatenhove, F.G.M., and O.B. Olesen. 1994. Ground temperature and related permafrost characteristics in West Greenland. Permafrost and Periglacial Processes 5:199-215.
Creation and Review Dates
Last DIF Revision Date:
2010-01-25
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