Images of historical datasheets of meteorological observations in the Caribbean
This dataset contains images from in-situ (sub-)daily meteorological datasheets housed in the KNMI archive from the late 19th and early 20th century. The images are made following the WMO Guidelines on Best Practices for Data Rescue (WMO No. 1182, edition 2024). Images contain data from Suriname (Nickerie, Fort Nieuw Amsterdam) and the islands of St. Eustatius, St. Maarten, Curacao and Bonaire in the Caribbean. The files are sorted by location and year. Measurements contain, among others, temperature, pressure, humidity, wind speed and direction, cloud cover and precipitation.
Per location images are available for the following years:
* Bonaire: 1920, 1927-1941
* Curacao: 1909-1946
* Suriname (New Nickerie): 1896-1903, 1922-1962
* Suriname (Fort New Amsterdam): 1896, 1900-1903
* St. Eustatius: 1909-1940, 1944-1946
* St. Maarten: 1920-1946
Simple
- Date (Publication)
- 2025-04-09
- Edition
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v1
- Citation identifier
- urn:xkdc:ds:nl.knmi::images_historical_meteorological_datasheets_caribbean/1.0/
- Purpose
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1) Digitizing and opening of data archive - making data available until the original source 2) Test set for development of AI/ML methods for meteorological data rescue
- Status
- Completed
- Point of contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Koninklijk Nederlands Meteorologisch Instituut (KNMI)
Point of contact
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Not planned
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DG Discovery Properties Vocabulary 1.0
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Climate
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In-situ data
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Image repository
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Historical observations
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Data rescue
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Caribbean Netherlands
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BES-islands
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Sint Maarten
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Sint Eustatius
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Bonaire
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Curacao
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Suriname
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New Nickerie
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Fort New Amsterdam
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Archive
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- Use limitation
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No use limitations
- Access constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- Classification
- Unclassified
- Spatial representation type
- Vector
- Language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Topic category
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- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
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- Begin date
- 1896-01-01
- End date
- 1962-10-31
- Reference system identifier
- http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/4326
- Distribution format
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Name Version RAW
C-RAW (.CR3)
- Distributor contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Koninklijk Nederlands Meteorologisch Instituut (KNMI)
Point of contact
Digital transfer options
- Transfer size
- 650.0
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name landingpage
https://dataplatform.knmi.nl/catalog/datasets/index.html?x-dataset=images_historical_meteorological_datasheets_caribbean&x-dataset-version=1.0 KNMI Data Platform
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Quantitative result
- Value
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The locations do not have images for the full time range. Per location the following images are available: Bonaire: 1920, 1927-1941, Curacao: 1909-1946, Suriname (New Nickerie): 1896-1903, 1922-1962, Suriname (Fort New Amsterdam): 1896, 1900-1903, St. Eustatius: 1909-1940, 1944-1946, St. Maarten: 1920-1946
- Statement
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Images of the following original observations with inventory book numbers from the KNMI Archives (example A-1XX): Termijn-tabellen Bonaire 1920, 1927-1941, A-188 (typed text). Termijn-tabellen Suriname, Fort Nieuw Amsterdam 1896, 1900-1903, Curaçao 1909-1946, A-189. Termijn-tabellen Suriname, Nieuw Nickerie 1896-1903, 1922-1962, A-191. Termijn-tabellen St. Eustatius 1909-1940, 1944-1946, A-194. Termijn-tabellen St. Maarten 1920-1946, A-195.
Metadata
- File identifier
- dc2f6634-1539-11f0-bcdd-8ea7dc4bfc29 XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2026-02-23T13:25:35.047101Z
- Metadata standard name
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ISO 19115
- Metadata standard version
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ISO 19115:2003 NL Kernset 1.3 KNMI 2.1.0
- Metadata author
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Koninklijk Nederlands Meteorologisch Instituut (KNMI)
Point of contact
- Other language
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Language Character encoding Dutch; Flemish English UTF8
Overviews
Spatial extent
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