Mauritius Royal Alfred Observatory parallel temperature measurements 1884-1903, original file in °Fahrenheit

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A suite of parallel meteorological measurements were undertaken over the extended period 1884-1903 at the Royal Alfred Observatory in Mauritius. The data were observed in: a well-ventilated room, by means of a Thermograph in a dedicated building, in a Stevenson Screen and by a Hygrometer in a different Stevenson Screen both in an enclosure, and for a short period two additional Stevenson Screens. Data were recorded in a series of annual reports from the observatory - two forms of which were produced each year. However, only a subset of these reports have been found. Data have been transcribed as monthly summaries of maximum, minimum, average (of certain hours) and mean (of max/min). The latter have been computed from max and min where not directly reported. All values are in the originally reported Fahrenheit values. Data were transcribed for a masters thesis by Samuel Awe and supplemented by subsequent transcriptions by Peter Thorne.

Instrument configurations:Room - well ventilated room in the SE corner of the observatory buildingThermograph - Thermograph housed in a dedicated building with a south facing aspectStevenson - Stevenson Screen in an instrument enclosureHygrometer - Hygrometer mounted in a Stevenson Screen within the same meteorological instrument enclosureStevenson at 6ft - a Stevenson Screen that for a short period was mounted in the same instrument enclosure but was at 6ft (1.8 m) heightLarge Stevenson - a Stevenson Screen that for the same period of time was also present but had a larger (closer to modern day) Screen shelter size

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DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.935684
Related Identifier References https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-18-793-2022
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Creator Thorne, Peter W ORCID logo
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2021
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Resource Type Dataset
Format text/plain
Size 21.4 kBytes
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (57.580 LON, -20.110 LAT); Mauritius
Temporal Coverage Begin 1884-01-01T00:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 1903-12-31T00:00:00Z