Published in EOS 86, 173, 180 in 2006
R. García-Herrera, G. P. Können, D. A. Wheeler, M. R. Prieto, P. D. Jones, and F. B. Koek
An outline is given about the international data abstraction project ship's logbooks and its application in the reconstruction of wind fields, circulation patters and of the North Atlantic Oscillation and the El Niño-Southern Oscillation index for the 1750-1854 period.