CLIWOC - Climatological Database for the World's Oceans 1750-1850 (release 1.5)

Another objective was to provide a comprehensive understanding of the nature of climatic change over the oceans for the century after 1750 when logbooks became abundant and to link with existing databases such as the I-COADS dataset (International Comprehensive Ocean-Atmosphere Data Set).

The study period is also significant because it marks a period when climatic change cannot be seen as a consequence of world-wide industrialization and the release of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. The files of the Dutch part of the CLIWOC dataset are divided into three major clusters: 721 Access database files, 418 digitized ships' logbooks (jpg-files) and 369 webpages. These clusters are described under 'Data collections'.