Abstract: A discussion of the history of thermometer exposure in the United States in the nineteenth and early twentieth century documents a wide variety of exposure types. The different exposures have likely contributed to ...

Abstract: comprehensive new compilation of North Atlantic tropical cyclone activity for the years 1851?98 is presented and compared with the second-generation North Atlantic hurricane database (HURDAT2) for the same years. This new ...

Abstract: Weather data extracted from the logbooks of 227 ships of opportunity are used to document the -state of the global climate system in the summer of 1816 (?The Year Without a Summer?). Additional land-based data, some never ...

Abstract: The nonstandard thermometer exposure practices at 118 United States cooperative weather stations in 1883 and at 394 stations in 1903 are documented from one unpublished source and one published source. Changes in the ...

Abstract: On 2 October 1858, estimated sustained hurricane-force winds produced by a tropical cyclone located a short distance offshore were felt in San Diego, California. Unprecedented damage was done in the city and was described ...

Abstract: Major hurricanes are prominent meteorological hazards of the U.S. Atlantic and Gulf coasts. However, the official modern record of Atlantic basin tropical cyclones starts at 1851, and it does not provide a comprehensive ...

Abstract: reanalysis of the Atlantic basin tropical storm and hurricane database (?best track?) for the period from 1921 to 1930 has been completed. This reassessment of the main archive for tropical cyclones of the North Atlantic ...

Abstract: A reanalysis of the Atlantic basin tropical storm and hurricane database (?best track?) for the period of 1911?20 has been completed. This reassessment of the main archive for tropical cyclones of the North Atlantic Ocean, ...