Sources of Data

The data originates from 677 international historical books or logbooks covering a period from 1633 to 2008. The oldest available sources are from the late 16th (Vraye description de trois voyages, 1598) and 17th century, respectively (Greenland and Spitsbergen 17th century, La Peyrere, 1644).

Few more publications are available for the 18th century (10 sources). The majority of the data originates from publications from the 19th (341) and 20th century (248). 16 sources for historical data were published in the 21th century. The most recent source included in the database was published in 2009 (Carstensen, Jorgensen: WEATHER AND CLIMATE DATA FROM GREENLAND 1958-2008).

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News

September 2017: Sets of air humidity hourly data from IPY-1 1882/83 are available.

Acknowledgements

The Historical Arctic Database bases on results from projects funded by the National Science Center Poland, Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education (MNSW) and Polish-Norwegian Fund.


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Terms of Use

The data provided can be used freely for non-commercial purposes. No warrany is given for the correctness and completeness of the data. Using this data please cite the respective references listed below.

References

Pressure data: Przybylak R., Wyszyński P., Vizi Z., Jankowska J. 2013. Atmospheric pressure changes in the Arctic from 1801 to 1920. Int. J. Climatol. 33: 1730-1760. DOI: 10.1002/joc.3546.

Temperature data for the whole Arctic: Przybylak R., Vizi Z., Wyszyński P. 2010. Air temperature changes in the Arctic from 1801 to 1920. Int. J. Climatol. 30: 791-812. DOI: 10.1002/joc.1918.

​Temperature data for Svalbard: Przybylak, R., Wyszyński, P., Nordli, Ø. and Strzyżewski, T. (2016), Air temperature changes in Svalbard and the surrounding seas from 1865 to 1920. Int. J. Climatol., 36: 2899–2916. doi:10.1002/joc.4527.

Daily temperature data for the Canadian Arctic: Przybylak, R. and Vizi, Z. (2005), Air temperature changes in the Canadian Arctic from the early instrumental period to modern times. Int. J. Climatol., 25: 1507–1522. doi:10.1002/joc.1213.

Temperature data for Novaya Zemlya Region: Przybylak, R. and Wyszyński, P. (2017), Air temperature in Novaya Zemlya Archipelago and Vaygach Island from 1832 to 1920 in the light of early instrumental data. Int. J. Climatol., 37: 3491–3508. doi:10.1002/joc.4934.

Humidity: Wyszyński P. and Przybylak R. (2014), Variability of humidity conditions in the Arctic during the first International Polar Year, 1882–83. Polar Research , 33, 23896, http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/polar.v33.23896