What is it about?
The article reports on a discussion of members of the Royal Meteorological Society (RMetS) about the role of ships' logs in studying marine climate change and variability.
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Why is it important?
Ships' logs may supply marine scientists with long-term climatological datasets from across the globe.
Perspectives
The article represents a synopsis of the discussion initiated by the RMetS and covering topics related to the history of the marine climate science, early measurements and instrumentation, and the role of ships' logs in understanding past and future climate change and variability.
Ms Jelizaveta G Ross
Plymouth Marine Laboratory
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This page is a summary of: Marine climate change and variability: the observational legacy of Matthew Fontaine Maury for climate change and variability, Weather, December 2015, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1002/wea.2551.
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