LAMB/1 - Deposit 1

LAMB/1

Sub-collection

Deposit 1

1943-1995

31 boxes

This sub-collection was transferred to the UEA Archives in 1998 from the CRU Library. The 31 boxes (2 of which are oversize) occupy 8 linear metres.

Contains correspondence and research papers; draft and final reports; reprints; correspondence with CRU staff and other colleagues; CRU research contracts; and supporting material for research in the form of data, photographs, maps, charts, graphs and diagrams.

Content across the collection focuses on North Sea storms and other northern seas around the coasts of northwest Europe; climate history including the ice age; long-range weather forecasts; rainfall; specific weather phenomena; weather in the UK and in East Anglia; climatic effect of volcanic dust; CRU administration, etc

Re-arrangement of the papers in LAMB/1 has taken place. The subject areas are similar to those used by Lamb in the index lists he created to organise his reprint collection. Covers 42 subject areas some of which can be found in more than one box.

Archaeology in relation to climate history Box 1
Carbon dating Box 1
Circulation papers Box 1
Climate change/variation Box 2
Climate history Box 3
CRU administration, research contracts and history Box 4, 5
Diaries, data sources and bibliographies Box 6
Drought Box 6
General administrative and research papers Box 7
General correspondence and papers Box 7
Global warming Box 8
Graphs, maps & diagrams Box 8, 9, 10
Images & artwork Box 11, 12
Impact of climate on agriculture Box 13
Impact of climate on humans Box 13
Long-range weather forecasting Box 14
Meteorological Office reports Box 15
Phenology Box 16
Pleistocene ice ages Box 16
Polar meteorology Box 16
Pressure Box 16
Rainfall papers Box 17
Sea ice Box 17
Sea level papers Box 18
Seasonal development, singularities, monsoons, and weather types Box 18
Singularities Box 19
Solar variations, data and effects Box 19
Southern Hemisphere meteorology Box 19
Statistical studies and methods Box 20
Storms – general Box 20
Storms over the North Sea & other northern seas around the coasts of northwestern Europe Box 21, 22, 23, 24
Temperature papers Box 25
Tree ring papers Box 25
Vegetation history Box 25
Volcanic effects Box 26
Weather observations Box 26
Weather - East Anglia Box 27
Weather - UK & Ireland Box 28
Weather - Central & Northern Europe Box 29
Weather - North America Box 29
Weather - Southern Europe Box 29
Wind Box 29