CORRAL - UK COLONIAL REGISTERS AND ROYAL NAVY LOGBOOKS AND ACRE HISTORICAL DATA RECOVERY, IMAGING, DIGITISATION AND VISUALISATIONS - ISPD

General Info

Title:	CORRAL - UK COLONIAL REGISTERS AND ROYAL NAVY LOGBOOKS AND ACRE HISTORICAL DATA RECOVERY, IMAGING, DIGITISATION AND VISUALISATIONS - ISPD
Type:	Data Entity
Sub-Type:	Measurement
Abbreviation:	CORRAL
Publication State:	published
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URI:	http://badc.nerc.ac.uk/view/badc.nerc.ac.uk__ATOM__dataent_1239019538627371

Summary
A brief description of the data.

Data from CORRAL project digitising Royal Navy ship's logbooks (from ships of voyages of scientific discovery and those in the service of the Hydrographic Survey) and coastal and island records contained in UK Colonial documents. This provides meteorological recordings from marine sites back to the 18th Century. These data are public.

Content
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Introduction

CORRAL (UK Colonial Registers and Royal Navy Logbooks) (project home page) uses late 18th to early 20th century archive material to enhance the global coverage of daily to sub-daily weather observations. These are essential for current research that requires an enhancement in the quality and quantity of past data in order to assess better the full nature of medium- to long-term climate variability and change.

The project utilises three distinct but complimentary and hitherto untapped sources: two based on Royal Navy ship’s logbooks (from ships of voyages of scientific discovery and those in the service of the Hydrographic Survey); the third being the coastal and island records contained in UK Colonial documents. The former of the three categories constitute documents of national and historical importance, with a corresponding need to make them freely available through managed websites. In all three instances, the instrumental data (mostly of air pressure and temperature) are of singular importance in representing marine conditions; this being an area that is traditionally under-represented in the climate record despite it occupying over two-thirds of the planet’s surface. These data have been abstracted, verified and made available to the scientific community through the British Atmospheric Data Centre (BADC) website. Most documents are to be found in The National Archives (Kew).

Records of the Admiralty, Naval Forces, Royal Marines, Coastguard, and related bodies [ADM]

These records are held at The National Archive, Kew. The ADM section includes records of the Admiralty, Naval Forces, Royal Marines, Coastguard, and related bodies, concerning all aspects of the organisation and operation of the Royal Navy and associated naval forces, over the period 1205-1998 (more details are available in the National Archives catalogue entry).

The CORRAL project deals with the following series:

Data Access

The CORRAL data are public access and available through the BADC website here: http://badc.nerc.ac.uk/browse/badc/corral/

Data availability and file format

The data are contained in scanned images (in JPEG format) of the pages from the various log books.

Documentation and Links to further information and references

Further information is available from the CORRAL project web page.

Citation

Meteorological Office, University of Sunderland, NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre. CORRAL (UK Colonial Registers and Royal Navy Logbooks), [Internet]. NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre, 2011, Date of citation. Available from http://badc.nerc.ac.uk/view/badc.nerc.ac.uk__ATOM__dataent_1239019538627371

Who to contact

If you have an inquiry regarding use or exploitation of the original material please contact the UK National Archives:

National Archives contact form
By post: The National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, TW9 4DU
By phone: +44 (0) 20 8876 3444

Lines are open:
Monday and Friday: 09:00 - 17:00
Tuesday and Thursday: 09:00 - 19:00
Wednesday: 10:00 - 17:00
Saturday: 09:30 - 17:00

Questions about the scientific exploitation of the climate data within these log books should be directed to the ACRE group at the UK Met Office:ACRE contacts page.

All other queries (e.g. regarding accessing the archive at the BADC) should be directed towards the BADC Helpdesk

Lineage
Summary of the origins of the dataset, e.g.: "Dataset produced from NASA MODIS instrument on Terra and collected at the University of York's groundstation 1999-2003 and a copy provided to NEODC in June 2007".

Images have been digitised as part of the CORRAL project and made available through the BADC

Quality Statement
Description of the relative quality of the dataset.

Data are scanned images of the log book pages

Author
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Name	email
http://www.corral.org.uk/ (CORRAL - UK Colonial Registers and Royal Navy Logbooks Project)

Contributors
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Name	email
http://www.sunderland.ac.uk/ (University of Sunderland)
badc.nerc.ac.uk (British Atmospheric Data Centre)	badc@rl.ac.uk
www.metoffice.gov.uk (Met Office)	enquiries@metoffice.gov.uk

Online References
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Relation	Title
Download	Browse and download CORRAL image collection
Documentation	CORRAL Project homepage

Parent Data Entity
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No data specified at present

Sub Data Entities
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None

Associated Deployments

Data Coverage
Summary of the temporal and spatial data coverage for the data.

Spatial coverage
Max Y: 90
Min X: -180	Max X 180
Min Y -90

Temporal coverage
Start Date:	1669-01-01
End Date:	1904-12-31

Spatial resolution

No spatial resoultion information available.

Vertical extent

No vertical extent information available.

Responsible Parties
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Role	Name	URI
Data Curator	badc.nerc.ac.uk	http://badc.nerc.ac.uk

Other Info
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Dataset language

English

Update frequency

notPlanned

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