Ledgers of meteorological ground observations at weather stations by Japan Meteorological Agency is archived in the IIIF format and provided by IIIF Curation Viewer for easier browsing. The number of images is 5,489,183.

1. Ledgers of Meteorological Ground Observations

Overview of Data by Type

Type Number Images Start End
1 気象月表 474 285,602 1879年01月 1961年12月
2 気象月表原簿 1,950 1,018,277 1878年01月 1966年12月
3 地上気象観測月原簿 10 71,858 1980年 1989年
4 普通気候観測月原簿 2,962 2,308,708 1953年01月 1982年12月
5 普通気候観測月原簿・気象年表原簿 6 2,922 1919年01月 1970年10月
6 気象年表 100 48,109 1874年 1955年
7 気象年表原簿 329 144,610 1879年 1966年
8 気象累年原簿 564 315,943 1873年 1970年
9 累年気象観測原簿 8 86,908 1961年 1990年
10 区内気象観測原簿 1,574 727,272 1898年01月 1979年06月
11 区内気象観測毎時降水量原簿 965 478,974 1950年01月 1978年12月

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2. License

This archive uses the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 (CC BY). Please add the following attribution when using the data.

Source: Japan Meterological Agency (Name of the material), Modified by: CODH "Historical Big Data" / NII "Digital Typhoon"

3. Related Information

4. Support

This archive was supported by the following grants.

5. News

2024-12-27
Added 「年原簿」 and 「累年原簿」 and the number of images increased to 5,489,183.
2023-01-27
At the 20th Historical Big Data Special Interest Group Meeting, I presented Ledger Archive of Meteorological Ground Observations: Present Status and Future Challenges.
2022-10-01
IIIF Curation Viewer was improved to show the Canvas ID for each ledger image.
2022-09-17
Added "Search by Filename".
2022-08-31
The official version was released. The number of images is 4,890,691.
2020-11-16
A prototype (Tokyo, Nagoya, Hikone, Kyoto, Osaka) was released.

6. Historical Data Archive

This archive is constructed as a part of Historical Big Data project promoted by ROIS-DS Center for Open Data in the Humanities.