Enriching the historical meteorological information using Romanian newspaper reports
Enriching the historical meteorological information using Romanian newspaper reports

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Authors

Sorin Cheval, Aritina Haliuc, Bogdan Antonescu, Adrian Tișcovschi, Mihaela Dobre, Florin Tătui, Alexandru Dumitrescu, Ancuta Manea, George Tudorache, Anisoara Irimescu

Abstract

This study presents the meteorological information spanning the last two decades of the end of 19th century (1880-1900) extracted from three Romanian newspapers (România Liberă, Gazeta de Transilvania and Foaia Poporului). It describes the characteristics of the newspaper data included in the database, it offers and overview of the meteorological network and climate picture at that time in Romania and discuss some of the climatic features that can be extracted from the database as potential information for further reconstructions.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.31223/osf.io/v7cm5

Subjects

Life Sciences, Other Life Sciences

Keywords

19th century, newspaper reports, Romania, weather events

Dates

Published: 2019-09-17 20:04

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GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) 2.1