NOAA, National Archives team up with citizen-scientists to reconstruct historical climate of the Arctic
Thursday, October 25, 2012 - 09:01
in Earth & Climate
Before there were satellites, weather data transmitters, or computer databases, there were the ship's logs of Arctic sea voyages, where sailors dutifully recording weather observations. Now, a new crowdsourcing effort could soon make of the weather data from these ship logs, some more than 150 years old, available to climate scientists worldwide.