The Development of the Study and Practice of Meteorology at Aberdeen

Geddes, A. E. M.

doi:10.1002/j.1477-8696.1955.tb00116.x

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“…Documents labelled with an asterisk are both referred to an Annual Reports in the main text of this paper. After 1920, when control of the Met Office passed from the Board of Trade to the Air Ministry (Walker, 2011) stations in Aberdeen (Geddes, 1955), Liverpool (Reynolds, 1954), Oxford (Smith, 1968) and Valentia (Murphy, 1990) were already known, but further investigation was required to locate other stations (Table 1). Some stations are not in the location that their name in the DWR may suggest.…”

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“…The Annual Reports provide the name and/or organization of the observer which helped to locate the specific site where the observations were taken. The specific locations of the stations in Aberdeen (Geddes, 1955), Liverpool (Reynolds, 1954), Oxford (Smith, 1968) and Valentia (Murphy, 1990) were already known, but further investigation was required to locate other stations (Table 1).…”

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Digitizing observations from the Met Office Daily Weather Reports for 1900–1910 using citizen scientist volunteers

Craig

Hawkins

2020

Geoscience Data Journal

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In September 1860, the UK Met Office (then known as the Meteorological Department of the Board of Trade), under the direction of Admiral Robert FitzRoy, began publishing Daily Weather Reports (DWRs) which consisted of tabulated weather observations from stations around Great Britain and Ireland (GBI). These stations communicated the observations daily to the Met Office in London by telegraph (Lempfert, 1913; Walker, 2011). Fitzroy used these observations to provide storm warnings and the first ever public 'weather forecasts', starting in August 1861. The observations from the DWRs have yet to be digitized so do not currently exist in any databases, although similar data from a small number of stations have been digitized from other sources. The DWRs are handwritten which makes them more difficult to digitize with optical character recognition (OCR) than typeset documents (Brönnimann et al., 2006) so must be digitized manually. Any attempts to digitize large quantities of handwritten weather observations are extremely

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Section: British and Irish Stationsmentioning

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Digitizing observations from the Met Office Daily Weather Reports for 1900–1910 using citizen scientist volunteers

Craig

Hawkins

2020

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“…In the remainder of the study, we refer to these composite stations by the original MWR station name only. Aberdeen ceases to appear in the MWR in 1948, but the Dyce station is station is close and so is a natural replacement (Geddes, ). Similarly, the replacement of York with Heslington in 1964 would not be expected to result in large systematic changes in thunder occurrence.…”

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Thunderstorm occurrence at ten sites across Great Britain over 1884–1993

Valdivieso

Owens

Scott

et al. 2019

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The UK Met Office's Daily Weather Reports (DWR) contain extensive logs of UK thunderstorm activity. To date, only a very small fraction of these data have been digitized as part of the MIDAS dataset, and exclusively after 1950. Using the recently‐scanned UK Met Office Monthly Weather Reports (MWR), which are based on a subset of the observations that form the DWR, we here provide digitized data and a summary of thunderdays from 10 long‐running British stations over the period 1884–1993. The data are presented ‘as is’, with no attempt to provide any corrections or calibration. For 4 of the 10 stations, thunderday observations were discontinued at various times between 1949 and 1964, and it is necessary to switch to a neighbouring station in order to continue the series. Approximately half the series exhibit sharp drops in thunderdays at various points between 1960 and 1990, although none are coincident with known station changes. Comparison with nearby MIDAS stations suggests the low thunderdays are the result of changes in observing practice, rather than genuine changes in thunderstorm occurrence. These potential data issues limit interpretation of the long‐term trends. However, it can nevertheless be concluded that none of the stations show the expected increase in thunderdays as a result of the rise in surface temperature over the 20th century. In order to provide more quantitative determination of the long‐term trends in thunderstorm occurrence, we advocate further digitization efforts to recover the data from the numerous stations in the MWRs, and subsequent analysis of the common signals across neighbouring stations.

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The Development of the Study and Practice of Meteorology at Aberdeen

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Digitizing observations from the Met Office Daily Weather Reports for 1900–1910 using citizen scientist volunteers

Digitizing observations from the Met Office Daily Weather Reports for 1900–1910 using citizen scientist volunteers

Thunderstorm occurrence at ten sites across Great Britain over 1884–1993

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