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A meteorological manuscript for Labrador/Nunatsiavut concerning May 1872-June 1873 found in Moravian missionary records
Demarée, G.; Olsthoorn, T.; Mailier, P.; Ogilvie, A.E. (2022). A meteorological manuscript for Labrador/Nunatsiavut concerning May 1872-June 1873 found in Moravian missionary records. Okhotsk Sea and Polar Oceans Research 6: 1-6
In: Okhotsk Sea and Polar Oceans Research. Okhotsk Sea and Polar Oceans Research Association: Japan. ISSN 2436-1550, more
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  • Demarée, G., more
  • Olsthoorn, T.
  • Mailier, P.
  • Ogilvie, A.E.
Abstract
    A manuscript contained in the Moravian Archives, Bethlehem, PA, USA, entitled Observations on the weather, giving date, barometer and thermometer readings, etc., Erscheinungsjahr, May 1872 - June 1873 provides daily instrumental meteorological observations and weather observations in a non-specified missionary station of the Moravian Brethren in Labrador. The daily observations cover the time period from 29 May 1872 to 3 July 1873 with an 8-day break in December 1872. According to these data, the temperature in this area was, on the average, about 2.6 °C lower than in present.
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