print email comment close CLIWOC: Climatological Database for the World's Oceans 1750-1850 URL: http://www.ucm.es/info/cliwoc/ Description: The primary aim of this project funded by the European Union "is to produce and make freely available for the scientific community the world's first daily oceanic climatological database for the period 1750 to 1850." Data has been obtained primarily through ships' logbooks "held in British, Dutch, French, Spanish and Argentinean archives." Site includes a database of transcribed weather information, maps, and a multilingual dictionary of wind force terms. Library of Congress Subject Headings: Marine meteorology Marine meteorology -- History Oceanography Winds -- Terminology LII Database Information: Record 14353 created by Helen Anderson on 12/30/2003 Last modification on 01/07/2004 Published: 12/30/2003   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/14353