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Nature 399, 518 (10 June 1999) | doi:10.1038/21049
Data rescue fills in the climate record
Tony Reichhardt
Scientists around the world have moved aggressively in recent years to identify and 'rescue' valuable stores of data — particularly atmospheric and oceanographic records extending back a century or more — before they are lost to the ravages of time.The records range from handwritten nineteenth-century ships' logs, to weather observations from colonial Africa, to decaying magnetic tape from early weather satellites.
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