Lazarus Archive · LZ-37946

Weather station logs, Coldfold, 1973–1981

Coldfold Meteorological Station, 1973–1981. Research data for the PDP-11.

Description

Temperature, rainfall, pressure and wind, recorded every ten minutes by a station that has since closed.

Provenance

Donated by the creator in 2023. Mould on three disk surfaces was cleaned off before imaging. About 58 percent of the data could be read; the gaps are mapped.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
b490e1dbadf576053d75d4497124955a34a28474ae4b8910d503ab0e38647173
Last verified
Oct 25, 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: Coldfold Meteorological Station, Weather station logs, Coldfold, 1973–1981 (1973–1981). Lazarus Archive, LZ-37946.

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