This paper discusses weather observations of Moravian missionaries in Greenland in the long 18th century, placing them in the broader context of their missionary work at Neu-Herrnhut and other stations as well as their comments on the natural world. Some of their climate-related remarks and measurements were published and discussed in print, notably in David Cranz’ History of Greenland and a number of scholarly reviews at the time. These publications are compared to and complemented by data retrieved by the authors from unpublished source material in the Moravian Archives in Herrnhut, Germany, demonstrating that the Moravian diaries can fill in significant gaps in Greenland’s weather charts before systematic measurements were introduced in the 19th century. Their special interest for climate studies is underscored in conclusion, in particular their observations of extreme climate events that can allow us to better characterise the amplitude and geographical extent of such events and to compare them with climate model simulations in order to better understand the respective roles of external (volcanism, solar activity) and internal (atmospheric circulation) forcings and the impacts of potential feedbacks within the ocean–atmosphere system.

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在漫长的 18 世纪制作和传播自然历史：摩拉维亚对格陵兰气候的未发表资料中的观察

本文讨论了 18 世纪漫长的格陵兰岛摩拉维亚传教士的天气观测，将他们置于他们在 Neu-Herrnhut 和其他站点的传教工作的更广泛背景下，以及他们对自然世界的评论。他们的一些与气候相关的评论和测量结果在印刷品中发表和讨论，特别是在 David Cranz'格陵兰岛历史以及当时的一些学术评论。这些出版物与作者从德国 Herrnhut 的摩拉维亚档案馆中未发表的源材料中检索到的数据进行了比较和补充，表明在 19 世纪引入系统测量之前，摩拉维亚日记可以填补格陵兰天气图中的重大空白。最后强调了他们对气候研究的特殊兴趣，特别是他们对极端气候事件的观察，这可以让我们更好地描述这些事件的幅度和地理范围，并将它们与气候模型模拟进行比较，以便更好地了解各自的作用外部的（火山作用，