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    Soldiers, Missionaries and Merchants on the Road - Early Instrumental Meteorological Observations carried out by Westerners in China

    Authors
    Demarée, G.
    Discipline
    Earth and related Environmental sciences
    Subject
    Soldiers
    Missionaries and Merchants
    Meteorological Observations
    China
    Audience
    General Public
    Scientific
    Date
    2003
    Publisher
    IRM
    KMI
    RMI
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    Description
    A large worldwide effort to reconstruct the climates of the past millennia is now going on in the framework of the “Global Change” issue. One of the data types useful for this study is the historical climate information. China constitutes in this context a highly privileged region, as a large number of historical climate data covering several millennia are available there. Chinese scientists have carefully drawn this information from chronicles, official documents, scholar’s writings and local gazetteers. It is worthy comparing the above-mentioned climatic information with the information from first noninstrumental and later from instrumental meteorological observations carried out by Westerners in China. It will be shown how Westerners - some of them soldiers, others being part of a strong coherent group of Jesuit missionaries, still others scientists - carried out meteorological observations in China and that the information is nowadays most useful in the context of the “Global Change” research.
    Citation
    Demarée, G. (2003). Soldiers, Missionaries and Merchants on the Road - Early Instrumental Meteorological Observations carried out by Westerners in China. , Issue 0, IRM,
    Identifiers
    uri: https://orfeo.belnet.be/handle/internal/8885
    Type
    Article
    Peer-Review
    Not pertinent
    Language
    eng
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