Climatological summaries of Thomas Hughes� meteorological data, for Stroud, UK (1775-1813)

Description

This submission provides tables of monthly meteorological and geophysical data from Gloucestershire 1771-1813, and obtained in Stroud specifically from 1775-1813. The data provide rainfall (amounts and number of rain days), surface pressure, thunderstorm days, snow days and auroral nights.

The values have been extracted from the Weather diary of Thomas Hughes, a Gloucestershire surgeon and apothecary. The original diary belongs to the Royal Meteorological Society and is kept as three bound volumes in the National Meteorological Archive.

Resource Type:	Dataset
Creators:	Harrison, Giles ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0693-347X
Rights-holders:	University of Reading
Data Publisher:	University of Reading
Publication Year:	2019
Data last accessed:	18 September 2024
DOI:	https://doi.org/10.17864/1947.234
Metadata Record URL:	https://researchdata.reading.ac.uk/id/eprint/234
Organisational units:	Science > School of Mathematical, Computational and Physical Sciences > Department of Meteorology
Participating Organisations:	University of Reading, Royal Meteorological Society
Keywords:	rainfall, thunder, aurora, Dalton Minimum
Rights:	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
Data Availability:	OPEN
Additional details Additional details Funders: No Funder Resource Language: English Collection period: From January 1771 To May 1813 Geographic coverage: Gloucestershire Data collection method: Manual observation and hand-recording by diligent observer Data processing and preparation activities: Data values transcribed from original meteorological diary, with monthly values derived or calculated. Additional Information: The aurora data have been described and analysed in Harrison, R.G., (2005). Aurora Diaries, Astronomy and Geophysics, August 2005, 46, 4.31-4.34. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-4004.2005.46431.x Depositing User: Professor Giles Harrison Date Deposited: 04 Dec 2019 09:49 Last Modified: 29 Jul 2023 04:17