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Reconstitution of Meteorological Daily Logs in Choseon Dynasty and Analyzing Weather Records of the Annals of King Gojong

조선시대 일기류의 기상일지(氣象日誌)적 재구성과 고종일기의 기상기록 분석

  • Kim, Il-Gwon (Academy of Korean Studies, The Graduate School of Korean Studies)
  • 김일권 (한국학중앙연구원 한국학대학원)
  • Received : 2015.03.02
  • Accepted : 2015.06.16
  • Published : 2015.09.30
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Abstract

First half of my article focused on analyzing the current state of historical materials regarding weather and climate, and established a list of weather-related historical literature collection of Korea with which to make a lexical approach to the situations of all kinds of weather literature. It also put emphasis on gathering information and data of weather logs from journal-type historical records which were contained in 48 weather-related journals of Choseon period. The results of this research are expected to be useful for the activation of study in historical meteorology. The latter half of my research focused on analyzing various meteorological states of sunny, cloudy, rainy, snowy and frosty weather which were recorded in the official Annals of King Kojong (1864~1907). And it re-verified historical rainfall data of preceding researches of Wada Yuji (1917), Jung-Lim (1994), Jhun-Moon (1997). In result, different records were found between data of theirs and mine. It means that we have to analyze and reconstruct newly the meteorological data of the Annals of King Gojong and the Daily Records of Royal Sungjungwon (1623~1910) during the late Choseon period.

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