bb481bfdf238490da5b30bf6be9581d2 English 8-bit variable size UCS Transfer Format, based on ISO/IEC 10646 56c03beb2e11472d87d547ea53c95f51 dataset NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis 01235446432 RAL Space STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Campus Didcot OX11 0QX United Kingdom support@ceda.ac.uk pointOfContact 2026-06-01T08:52:29 UK GEMINI 2.3 WGS 84 Operation Weather Rescue: scanned copies of meteorological observation registers and tabulated records from Oxford's Radcliffe Observatory manuscript archives, 1760-1945 2026-05-16T19:43:02 publication 2026-05-16T19:43:02 creation https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/bb481bfdf238490da5b30bf6be9581d2 bb481bfdf238490da5b30bf6be9581d2 NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis 10.5285/bb481bfdf238490da5b30bf6be9581d2 doi This dataset contains scanned copies of Oxford's Radcliffe Observatory manuscript archives, 1760-1945. The entire manuscript collection of meteorological observation registers and tabulated records from the former Radcliffe Observatory, a little over 32,000 pages in all, was commercially scanned in high resolution by Autodocs Ltd of Glasgow between January and March 2022. The project was funded by a NERC grant. Each page was scanned and the output stored in three formats, namely PDF, JPEG and TIFF, in increasing file size order. The TIFF files are highest resolution (600 dpi) and retain true document colours. JPEG files use lossy compression to reduce file size, but are otherwise identical for all practical purposes. The PDF files have had contrast and colour adjusted slightly to improve legibility, and file sizes are smaller. Page contents are identical regardless of file format. Separate PDFs for e.g. daily sheets for one month's observations have been combined into a single file for ease of use and reference, while the TIFF and JPEGs remain one file per page. The collection covers the following: - 1760-1805 MS observation notes by Thomas Hornsby - 1811-1820 Daily registers, mostly 3 obs/day. Note that the original logbook was missing when the scanning was undertaken, and these pages are JPEG and PDF files (no TIFFs available) from photographs taken by Tim Burt in 2017 - 1820-1860 Daily (e.g. max, min, rainfall) and 3 obs/day data - 1855-1934 Sub-daily data in a variety of formats, including hourly transcriptions of many elements. A more detailed catalogue is available upon request providing more granular data by element and period - 1873-1935 Copies of climatological returns to the Met Office (incomplete series) - originals are in Met Office archives (and have since been scanned and made available online) - 1893-1945 Daily rainfall registers - two or more daily raingauges, with 00-00h totals as well as the standard 09-09h for some of this period. - 1952-1995 Various miscellaneous site and metadata information In all, the TIFF collection amounts to 31,462 files and 0.98 TB: PDF 1983 files, 47.5 GB. JPEG files are not held on this disk, but are available on request, in original 'Volume number' and file name order. Both PDF and TIFF files have been re-sorted from the original volume/folio order into meaningful folder names, and the file names identify the content, such as 'Oxford_Daily_Data_1822.pdf' or '071_003_Oxford_Eye_Readings_1889-04-05.tiff'. Where records relate to a month, the form yyyy-mm for year-month is used, months numbered 01-12. Additional numbers after the year such as -00 or -99 usually indicate front and back logbook covers, some of which contain handwritten notes on e.g. instrumental calibrations or adjustments. More information on the Observatory records, including extensive metadata, is given in Oxford Weather and Climate since 1767 by Stephen Burt and Tim Burt, published by Oxford University Press in 2019, pp. 544. (see online resources for link). The scanning was funded through support from the National Centre for Atmospheric Science (NCAS). Hawkins, Ed Unavailable author Unavailable author Burt, Stephen Unavailable author Unavailable author NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis custodian 01235446432 RAL Space STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Campus Didcot OX11 0QX United Kingdom support@ceda.ac.uk custodian NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis data_owner 01235446432 RAL Space STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Campus Didcot OX11 0QX United Kingdom support@ceda.ac.uk owner NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis distributor 01235446432 RAL Space STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Campus Didcot OX11 0QX United Kingdom support@ceda.ac.uk distributor Hawkins, Ed Unavailable principal_investigator Unavailable principalInvestigator Kent, Elizabeth C. Unavailable principal_investigator Unavailable principalInvestigator NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis point_of_contact 01235446432 RAL Space STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Campus Didcot OX11 0QX United Kingdom support@ceda.ac.uk pointofContact NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis publisher 01235446432 RAL Space STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Campus Didcot OX11 0QX United Kingdom support@ceda.ac.uk publisher notPlanned dataset Met Office Reports Weather Meteorology atmospheric conditions theme GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-06-01 publication otherRestrictions Public data: access to these data is available to both registered and non-registered users. otherRestrictions Under the following licence http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/, appropriate use of these data may fall under any use. This message is intended as guidance, always read the full licence. When using these data you must cite them correctly using the citation given on the CEDA Data Catalogue record. grid English climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere -1.2639 -1.2639 51.7608 51.7608 1760-01-01T00:00:00 1945-12-31T23:59:59 JPEG, TIFF, PDF NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis Data Center Contact 01235446432 RAL Space STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Campus Didcot OX11 0QX United Kingdom support@ceda.ac.uk distributor https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/bb481bfdf238490da5b30bf6be9581d2 CEDA Data Catalogue Page Detail and access information for the resource information http://data.ceda.ac.uk/badc/operation-weather-rescue/data/OXFORD-RADCLIFFE-SCANS DOWNLOAD Download Data download https://weatherrescue.wordpress.com/ Operation Weather Rescue website No further details. information https://dap.ceda.ac.uk/badc/operation-weather-rescue/data/OXFORD-RADCLIFFE-SCANS/README/Format_details_of_scanned_obs_registers_from_Radcliffe_Observatory_Oxford_1811-1935_v1.2.pdf Format details of scanned meteorological observation registers from Radcliffe Observatory, Oxford 1811-1935 No further details. information https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198834632.001.0001 Burt, Stephen, and Tim Burt, Oxford Weather and Climate since 1767 (Oxford, 2019; online edn, Oxford Academic, 18 July 2019), https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198834632.001.0001 No further details. information dataset Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services 2010-12-08 Data were digitised as part of the Operation Weather Rescue project and sent to the Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) for archiving.