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Below are checklists of Other references to climate and climatology on postal items (stamps, souvenir sheets, aerogrammes, postal cards, etc.). Catalog numbers, years of issue, and notes on the items featured are given when available. If readers know of additional information or images, please contact the authors using the e-mail addresses at the bottom of this page.
| Launch covers (including anniversary-of-launch covers, and launch-related event covers) (farther below) |
Other postal items (stamps, souvenir sheets, aerogrammes, postal cards, etc.) (immediately below) |
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| General references to climate and climatology | General references to climate and climatology |
| Microclimates | |
| Climate and health | Climate and health |
| Aerosols and climate | |
| Phenology1 |
Below is a list of Other references to climate and climatology on postal items (stamps, souvenir sheets, aerogrammes, postal cards, etc.).
| Country | Catalog Number | Type of Item | Year of Issue | Notes on Content |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| General references to climate and climatology | ||||
| Australian Antarctic Territory | L117n (Mi138) | One of MS20 (L117 (a-t)) (Mi125-144) | 2001 | "Climate" and weather balloon |
| Australian Antarctic Territory | None | (Purple rubber-stamp) cachet on cover | 2015 | "The Coldest Place on Earth" |
| Australian Antarctic Territory | None | (Purple rubber-stamp) cachet on cover | 2017 | "The Coldest Place on Earth" |
| Belgium | 2015 (Mi3327) i2015 | From MS10 (2015a (10x 2015)) Imperforate | 2004 | "Climatologie/Klimatologie" |
| Belgium | 2015 fdc1 | Stamp and (pictorial) cancel and (multi-color printed) cachet (design like stamp) on FDC | ||
| Belgium | 2015 fdc2 | Stamp and (pictorial) cancel and (multi-color printed) cachet (design like stamp, different) on FDC | ||
| Belgium | 2015 maxi | Maxicard | ||
| Belgium | 2016 (Mi3328) i2016 | From MS10 (2016a (10x 2016)) Imperforate | ||
| Belgium | 2016 fdc1 | Stamp and pictorial) cancel and (multi-color printed) cachet (design like stamp) on FDC | ||
| Belgium | 2016 fdc2 | Stamp and pictorial) cancel and (multi-color printed) cachet (design like stamp, different) on FDC | ||
| Belgium | 2016 maxi | Maxicard | ||
| Belgium | 2017 (Mi3329) i2017 | From MS10 (2017a (10x 2017)) Imperforate | ||
| Belgium | 2017 fdc | Stamp and (pictorial) cancel and (multi-color printed) cachet (design like stamp) on FDC | ||
| Belgium | 2018 (Mi3330) i2018 | From MS10 (2018a (10x 2018)) Imperforate | ||
| Belgium | 2018 fdc | Stamp and (pictorial) cancel and (multi-color printed) cachet (design like stamp) on FDC | ||
| Belgium | 2018 maxi | Maxicard | ||
| Belgium | 2015-2018 fdc | Four stamps and (pictorial) cancel and (multi-color printed) cachet on FDC | ||
| Belgium | 2015-2018 fd-sheet | Four stamps and (pictorial) cancel on FD sheet | ||
| British Antarctic Territory | 180 (Mi181) | 1991 | "Dry Valley", Antarctica | |
| British Antarctic Territory | 180-183 fdc | One of four stamps on FDC (British Post cachet) | ||
| France | None | (Red text) meter | 1958 | "Climats Tropicaux" |
| France | None | (Red pictorial) meter | 1962 | "Sous tous les Climats" |
| France | None | (Slogan) cancel | 1962 | "Brioude ... son climat" |
| France | None | (Slogan) cancel on cover | 1982 | "Roquebrune ... climat printanier" |
| France | None | (Blue rubber-stamp) cachet on cover | 1989 | "climatologie" |
| France | 4601a fdc (Mi? fdc) | FD canceled booklet of 12 (4590-4601) | 2014 | "Working together to preserve the climate" (in French in booklet text and in cancel) |
| Great Britain | 4278 (Mi5047) | One of strip of 4 (4278a (4275-4278)) (Mi5044-5047) | 2022 | "Arid-climate operations" |
| India | 2725-2726 brochure1 | Brochure outside, also inside | 2015 | "Megha-Tropiques is a unique satellite for climate research"; SARAL data products will be useful in ... climate monitoring [and] ocean, Earth system and climate research [and] continental ice studies"; the two satellites are "a joint endeavour of the two countries to study and intensively observe ocean systems and climate systems" |
| India | 2725-2726 brochure2 | FDC brochure | ||
| Monaco | None | (Text) cancel | 1928 | "Monte Carlo - Climat incomparable" |
| Monaco | None | (Text) cancel on cover | 1934 | "Monte Carlo - Climat idéal" |
| Monaco | None | (Text) cancel | 1937 | "Monte Carlo - Climat idéal" |
| Norway | None | (Purple rubber-stamp) cachet on cover | 1988 | "Climatologie" |
| Redonda (Antigua) | BL29 | SS1 (Mi186) | 1985 | "It is your environment that makes climate" |
| Somalia | Unknown ss (BL?) Unknown iss | In (upper-right) margin of SS1, also detail In (upper-right) margin of imperforate SS1, also detail | 2004 | "Antarctica - the coldest place on Earth" logo |
| Spain | None | (Text) cancel | 1937 | "Clima Ideal" |
| Spain | 4492 fdc (Mi5506 fdc) | (Spanish Post/S.F.C. 2021) cachet on FDC | 2021 | "Un sello por el clima" ("A stamp for the climate" - these two stamps were winners in a stamp design competition in which the key design elements were environment, climate and people) |
| Spain | 4493 fdc (Mi5507 fdc) | (Spanish Post/S.F.C. 2021) cachet on FDC | ||
| Tunisia | None | (Text) cancel on cover | 1936 | "Bizerte - son climat" |
| Tunisia | None | (Text) cancel on cover | 1938 | "Bizerte - son climat" |
| Tunisia | None | (Text) cancel on postcard | 1953 | "Djerba - climat doux" |
| Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus | 127b fdc (Mi128 fdc) | (Fleeetwood) back of FDC, also front | 1983 | "pleasing climate" |
| United States | None | (Black printed) cachet on postal card | 1913 | "Rainbow corn ... grows well in any climate" |
| United States | None | Cinderella | 1930s | "Oregon - climate is ideal" |
| United States | None | Cinderella | 1930s | "It's the climate" (Grant's Pass OR) |
| United States | None | Cinderella | ? | "Live in a kindly climate" (Snohomish County WA) |
| United States | CP37 | (USPS no.37) commemorative panel (1506) | 1974 | "rugged winters, dry summers" |
| United States | 2074 fdc (Mi? fdc) | (PCS golden-replica) insert from FDC, also front | 1983 | "Soil Erosion Service experts ... develop grains that can survive in severe climate and soil conditions" |
| United States | 4066 (Mi4111) 4066_back | From MS40 (4072a (4033-4072)) (Mi4078-4117), also back | 2006 | Rainiest spot in the US: Mt. Wai'ale'ale, Kaua'i HI, "400 inches"/year (10,000 mm/year) |
| United States | 4070 (Mi4115) 4070_back | "Death Valley - Hottest Spot" (in the USA) | ||
| United States | 4066 fdc1 | Stamp and (PCS) cachet on FDC | (As above for stamps) | |
| United States | 4066 fdc2 | Stamp and (Mystic Stamp Company) cachet on FDC, also back | ||
| United States | 4066 fdc3 | Stamp and (PCS golden-replica) cachet on FDC, also insert | ||
| United States | 4066 fdc4 | Stamp on FDC (Fleetwood cachet), also back | ||
| United States | 4070 fdc1 | Stamp on FDC (Mystic Stamp Company cachet), also back | ||
| United States | 4070 fdc2 | Stamp and (PCS golden-replica) cachet on FDC, also insert | ||
| United States | 4070 fdc3 | Stamp and (PCS) cachet on FDC | ||
| United States | 4070 fdc4 | Stamp on FDC (ArtCraft cachet) | ||
| United States | SP1611 | (USPS) souvenir page (4033-4072), also back | ||
| United States | CP763 page1 | (USPS no.766) commemorative panel (4033-4072), also page2 | ||
| United States | 4204 fdc (Mi4316 fdc) | (Mission 57) back of FDC, also front | 2007 | Antarctica is "the coldest, driest and windiest place with so little precipitation that the interior of the continent is technically the world's largest desert." |
| United States | None | (Mission 57) back of cover, also front | 2007 | Antarctica is "the coldest, driest and windiest place with so little precipitation that the interior of the continent is technically the world's largest desert." |
| United States | None | (Coverscape) cachet on cover | 2013 | "Death Valley, in the Mojave Desert, is the lowest, driest and hottest location in the United States" |
| United States | 4524o fdc (Mi4695 fdc) | (Fleetwood) back of FDC, also front | 2011 | "cold months" and "warm months" |
| Microclimates | ||||
| France | None | (Pictorial) cancel | 1991 | "Duravel micro climat" |
| France | None | (Pictorial) cancel | 1994 | "Beauzac micro-climat" |
| France | None | (Pictorial) cancel | 1996 | "Lancieux micro-climat" |
| France | None | (Pictorial) cancel | 2004 | "Beauzac micro-climat" |
| France | None | (Multi-color printed) cachet on cover | 200? | "Lozère micro climat" |
| United States | 2570 fdc (Mi2185 fdc) | (Fleetwood) back of FDC, also front | 1991 | "cities form massive heat sinks, absorbing solar energy by day and releasing it at night. On many Landsat IR photographs, large metropolitan areas appear white hot". This is known as the urban heat island effect. |
| United States | 2570 maxi (Mi2185 maxi) | (Unicover) back of maxicard, also front | "Infrared photos taken by Landsat revealed a number of interesting phenomena, among which is that cities form massive heat sinks, absorbing solar energy by day, and releasing it at night". This is known as the urban heat island effect. | |
| Climate and health | ||||
| Bangladesh | 730 (Mi902) | 2008 | "Protecting health from climate change" | |
| Bangladesh | 730 fdc | Stamp on FDC | ||
| Brazil | None | (Text) cancel | 1931 | "Healthy climate"; "Clima salubre" |
| Croatia | None | (Slogan) cancel and (Meteorologial and Hydrological Service/Croatian Meteorologial Society) cachet on cover | 1999 | "Vrijeme, klima i zdravlje" (Weather, climate and health) |
| Croatia | None | (Slogan) cancel on cover (blank/no cachet) | ||
| France | None | (Pictorial) cancel on cover | 1988 | Briançon: La santé par le climat (a healthy climate) |
| France | None | (Pictorial) cancel | 1989 | Briançon: La santé par le climat (a healthy climate) |
| Romania | None | (Pictorial) cancel and (multi-color printed) cachet on postcard | 1995 | "Air pollution causes more deaths than genetic changes or climate change" |
| Uruguay | None | (Pictorial) cancel and (multi-color printed) cachet on cover | 2008 | "Protegiendo la salud frente al cambio climático; Estimated deaths attributed to climate change in the year 2000, by subregion" |
| Phenology1 | ||||
| Great Britain | None | (Phenological returns) wrapper (inside); also outside | 1875 | Phenological observations |
| Spain | None | Postal card back, also front | 1911 | Climatológia: Estudios Fenológico-agrícolas |
| Spain | None | Postal card back (slightly different), also front (slightly different), and (pictorial) cancel | 1911 | Climatológia: Estudios Fenológico-agrícolas |
| Spain | None | Postal card back, also front | 1951 | Climatológia: Estudios Fenológico-agrícolas |
1Phenology: The scientific study of cyclical biological events, such as flowering, breeding, and migration, in relation to climatic conditions. Phenological records of the dates on which seasonal phenomena occur may provide information on how changing climate affects ecosystems over time.
Below is a list of Other references to climate and climatology on launch covers (including anniversary-of-launch covers).
| Country | Cancel Date | Cancel Location | Type of Item | Notes on Content |
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| General references to climate and climatology | ||||
| United States | 1972-10-15 | Vandenberg AFB, CA | (Riser/Andromeda/Cygnus Cover no.38) cachet on NOAA-2 and OSCAR-6 launch (airmail) cover | "Info on Earth climate" |
| French Guiana | 1992-12-01 | Kourou | (C.E. SEP Section Philatélie) cachet on Superbird-A1 launch cover | "To monitor and understand climate [and weather]" (in French text) |
| French Guiana | 2002-08-28 | Kourou | (ESA) cachet on Eutelsat-12-West-A (Atlantic Bird-1) launch cover | "New Horizons for Weather and Climate" |
| United States | 2019-10-12 | Sagamore Beach MA | (Coverscape) cachet on Explorer-7 anniversary cover | "The first satellite to study Earth's climate"; studied "the Earth-atmosphere heat balance" |
| Climate and health | ||||
| United States | 1975-11-19 | Kennedy Space Center FL | (SCPS) cachet on Explorer-55 launch cover | "Ozone depletion significantly increases the risk of skin cancer among humans" |
| Aerosols and climate | ||||
| United States | 2011-03-04 | Vandenberg AFB, CA | (Mission 57) back of Glory launch cover, also front | "Studying aerosols' role in climate activity" and "aerosols can either scatter or absorb the Sun's heat, based on their composition, warming or cooling the planetary climate" |
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