Hurricane with a History: Hawaiian Newspapers Illuminate an 1871 Storm

Businger, Steven; Nogelmeier, M. Puakea; Chinn, Pauline W. U.; Schroeder, Thomas

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Hurricane with a History: Hawaiian Newspapers Illuminate an 1871 Storm

2018
By Businger, Steven ; Nogelmeier, M. Puakea ; Chinn, Pauline W. U.
Source Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 99(1), 137-147

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Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
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Businger, Steven ; Nogelmeier, M. Puakea ; Chinn, Pauline W. U. ; Schroeder, Thomas
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NMFS (National Marine Fisheries Service)
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High literacy rates among Native Hawaiians in the nineteenth century and publication of more than 100 Hawaiian-language newspapers from 1834 to 1948 produced the largest archive of indigenous writing in the Western Hemisphere. These newspapers extend our knowledge of historical environmental events and natural disasters back into the early nineteenth century and deeper into precontact times. Articles reporting observations of meteorological events allowed the authors to reconstruct the track and intensity of an 1871 hurricane that brought devastation to the islands of Hawaii and Maui and to discern historical patterns of droughts and floods in Hawaii. These findings illustrate the value of Hawaiian-language newspapers as resources for science research and science education.
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Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 99(1), 137-147
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https://doi.org/10.1175/bams-d-16-0333.1
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0003-0007 ; 1520-0477
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American Meteorological Society
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Journal Article
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Grant no. NA11NMF4320128
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