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

LIZARDO SEINER; JOSÉ MANUEL NARANJO; RICARDO GARCÍA HERRERA; ANA MARÍA MARÍN FARRONA; FERNANDO DOMÍNGUEZ-CASTRO; MARCOS VILLACÍS; LUIS ENRIQUE RAMOS GUADALUPE; RICARDO MACHADO TRIGO; RAÚL DAVID MEJÍA; MARÍA DEL ROSARIO PRIETO; ERIKA ELIZABETH CEVALLOS; CRISTINA DE LA GUÍA; MARÍA CRUZ GALLEGO; JUAN CARLOS ANTUÑA-MARRERO; JOSÉ MANUEL VAQUERO

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Springer Nature. Macmillan Publisher

Lugar: Londres; Año: 2017 p. 1 - 10

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 retrievedwere air temperature, atmospheric pressure, and precipitation, but other variables, such as humidity, winddirection, and state of the sky were retrieved when possible. In total, more than 300,000 early instrumentaldata were rescued (96% with daily resolution). Especial effort was made to document all the availablemetadata in order to allow further post-processing. The compilation is far from being exhaustive, but thedataset will contribute to a better understanding of climate variability in the region, and to enlarging theperiod of overlap between instrumental data and natural/documentary proxies.