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Old Weather

@oldweather

Our Weather's Past, the Climate's Future. Citizen science project asking volunteers to rescue weather data from voyages to the Arctic.

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Joined May 2010
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Kevin Wood

Kevin Wood

Kevin Wood, oldWeather’s chief scientist for the last few years, died on Monday February 14th 2022, after a long illness. He was 59. Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010, was a red-letter day for ol…

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USS Salt Lake City: 1941 oldweather.wordpress.com/202…
USS Salt Lake City: 1941

USS Salt Lake City: 1941

Here’s a first look at the navigation and temperature data from 1941 you’ve transcribed from the logbooks of the USS Salt Lake City (CA-25), a heavy cruiser commissioned in 1929. The Sa…

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War Diary oldweather.wordpress.com/202…
War Diary

War Diary

On October 19, 1942 the Commander in Chief of the Navy issued new guidance to the fleet regarding the ship’s logbook. His order, COMINCH 3899, directed that the logbook be divided into three sectio…

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A winter reflection oldweather.wordpress.com/202…
A winter reflection

A winter reflection

An old shipmate of mine shares this poem every December, and it always makes me pause to reflect on my former career at sea, and those friends I’ve sailed with now scattered far and wide. And…

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A new Old Weather project oldweather.wordpress.com/202…
A new Old Weather project

A new Old Weather project

Old Weather – WW2 is now an active Zooniverse project. The purpose of this project is to recover hidden marine weather data recorded in U.S. Navy ships’ logbooks during World War II. Li…

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ACRE@met_acre13 Mar 2020
Southern Weather Discovery from @niwa_nz is back! This time looking at New Zealand’s ‘week it snowed everywhere’ in 1939. Help us digitize weather records to improve our understanding of the event and train AI digitizers of tomorrow: zooniverse.org/projects/drew…… #climhist #citsci
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Help our @metoffice_sci #CitizenScience project extend the digital record of observations from the Eskdalemuir Observatory heritage site. We need you to scan and digitise historic meteorological data to feed in to the climate record #climatescience @the_zooniverse
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1. The idea that the globe is warming isn’t based on computer models. It’s based on millions of measurements, taken on land and at sea over some 170 years. washingtonpost.com/graphics/…
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Here are some of the Old Weather crew: volunteer Helen Julian; NOAA scientist Kevin Wood; and volunteers Joan Arthur and Michael Purves. Want to join them? See oldweather.org for more and follow @oldweather
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A great new article on oldWeather-Arctic reuters.com/investigates/spe… By Andrew R.C. Marshall, for Reuters. Linked to another article on how we use the observations graphics.reuters.com/CLIMATE… By Feilding Cage
Icebound: The climate-change secrets of 19th century ship’s logs

Icebound: The climate-change secrets of 19th century ship’s logs

A group of citizen-scientists called Old Weather has transcribed millions of observations from ship's logs, amassing data in a 21st century rescue mission.

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Getting oldWeather data ship-shape for science blog.oldweather.org/2018/12/…
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A better centenary blog.oldweather.org/2018/11/…
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Drew Lorrey@DLorrey29 Oct 2018
Launched Southern Weather Discovery with @petra_pearce zooniverse.org/projects/drew… Citizen scientists can help our @niwa_nz team rescue old observations to reconstruct Southern Hemisphere weather & climate @DeepSouth_NZ @met_acre @ed_hawkins @cubaraglanguy youtube.com/watch?v=245NltyJ…

Southern Weather Discovery | Zooniverse - People-powered research

Capture old weather data from New Zealand, the Southern Ocean and Antarctica to help us understand the past and prepare for the future

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The Sitka Hurricane of 1880 blog.oldweather.org/2018/09/…
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Nick Rayner at #ICR5 on data rescue. Give example of using whalling records to retrieve sea ice and met conditions.
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The cat is out of the bag! @AMOSupdates @ClimateSystem are holding a Weather and Climate citizen science workshop! eventbrite.com.au/e/amos-wea…
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I'm on @FiveThirtyEight today, writing about @oldweather and #climatechange! fivethirtyeight.com/features… #weather #science #innovation
Politics News | Breaking Political News, Video & Analysis-ABC News

Politics News | Breaking Political News, Video & Analysis-ABC News

ABC News is your trusted source on political news stories and videos. Get the latest coverage and analysis on everything from the Trump presidency, Senate, House and Supreme Court.

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Editing the weather observations blog.oldweather.org/2017/03/…
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Replying to @jr_carpenter
.@jr_carpenter About 9,842 such women are listed here: blog.oldweather.org/2014/11/…
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From Old Weather to the Royal Astronomical Society daily.zooniverse.org/2017/02… via @DailyZooniverse Get involved with @OldWeather today!
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