Hourly Observations and Climate Data, Including Rainfall Data in Transcaucasia,for Cities in the Russian Empire (1813-1918)

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Title: Hourly Observations and Climate Data, Including Rainfall Data in Transcaucasia,for Cities in the Russian Empire (1813-1918)

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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.

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Range_of_Dates/Times:

Beginning_Date: 18130101

Ending_Date: 19181231

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Status:

Progress: Complete

Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: As needed

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Bounding_Coordinates:

West_Bounding_Coordinate: 20.0

East_Bounding_Coordinate: 175.0

North_Bounding_Coordinate: 70.0

South_Bounding_Coordinate: 35.0

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Place:

Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: GCMD

Place_Keyword: CONTINENT > EUROPE > EASTERN EUROPE > RUSSIA

Place_Keyword: CONTINENT > ASIA > USSR > RUSSIA

Place_Keyword: GEOGRAPHIC REGION > MID-LATITUDE

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Contact_Person_Primary:

Contact_Person: V. KOCHERGIN

Contact_Position: INVESTIGATOR

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: Mailing and Physical Address

Address: Management of Transcaucasian Water Economy

Address: Research Department

City: Tiflis

Country: Russia

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Contact_Organization: DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NODC/LISD > Library Services Information Division, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce

Contact_Person: NOAA CENTRAL LIBRARY

Contact_Position: DATA CENTER CONTACT

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Address_Type: Mailing and Physical Address

Address: NOAA Central Library

Address: 1315 East-West Highway 2nd Floor, SSMC3

City: Silver Spring

State_or_Province: MD

Postal_Code: 20910-3282

Country: USA

Contact_Voice_Telephone: (301) 713-2600 x124

Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: (301) 713-4598

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: reference@www.lib.noaa.gov

Resource_Description: C/DB K96

Resource_Description: C/DB K96M

Resource_Description: C/DB K96O

Resource_Description: C/DB K96R

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http://www.lib.noaa.gov/

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Metadata_Date:

Metadata_Review_Date: 20120223

Metadata_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Person_Primary:

Contact_Person: PETER L. GRIMM

Contact_Position: DIF AUTHOR

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Address_Type: Mailing and Physical Address

Address: NOAA Environmental Information Services

Address: 1315 East-West Highway, SSMC3, Station 15441

City: Silver Spring

State_or_Province: MD

Postal_Code: 20910

Country: USA

Contact_Voice_Telephone: (301) 713-0575

Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: (301) 713-1249

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: peter.l.grimm@noaa.gov

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