Description
Temperature, rainfall, pressure and wind, recorded every ten minutes by a station that has since closed.
Provenance
Deposited by Eastern Shore Archives Service in 2010. The tape had stretched near its start; the first blocks were repaired by hand from the sampled signal. All of the work survives. The repairs are listed in the record’s damage map.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
57696372be780dbfbeadc8d595dec5fcf0c6f6abf452b339b2a5ec8235969a1f- Last verified
- Sep 30, 2026, by Vigil
- Migrated to
- CSV with a data dictionary, with the original files kept
- Copies
- Three, on two kinds of storage, in two cities
- Original carriers
- Kept in cold storage in Vancouver
Access
Free, in the Lazarus reading room in Vancouver and in partner reading rooms. Copies may be taken away under the work’s license.
Reading-room copies are migrated to CSV with a data dictionary, with the original files kept. The recovered files are kept exactly as they were found.
Cite as: Ironfield Meteorological Station, Weather station logs, Ironfield, 1974–1981 (1974–1981). Lazarus Archive, LZ-13312.