Presidential library would publish online Saint Petersburg weather data starting XVIII century
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18.05.2017
The Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library administration made a decision to digitalize all documents related to weather observations in Saint Petersburg since XIII century, IA Interfax informs.
Totally, around two thousand rare documents from Northwestern Gidrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring Department Fund will be scanned and archived.
Press service of the library has remarked that the earliest documents related to weather forecasting and nature monitoring date back 1726. The archive will be in public access after its digital conversion. It contains conclusions of meteorological observations made by the Imperial Academy of Sciences from 1726 until 1850. The sunshine observations since XX century are of interest too.
The department and library representatives advised that meteorological forecasters, geographers, historians and other Internet users would be highly interested in monitoring atmospheric fallout, ice drifting and other meteorological observations.
Russkiy Mir