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An eccentric group of citizen-scientists called Old Weather has transcribed millions of observations from long-forgotten logbooks of ships, many from the great era of Arctic exploration. As the polar regions grow ever warmer, the volunteers have amassed a rich repository of climate data in a 21st century rescue mission.
By ANDREW R.C. MARSHALL in OXFORD, ENGLAND
Filed: December 11, 2019, 2 p.m. GMT
Meteorologists have long recorded the weather at land-based stations. But nearly three-quarters of the planet is covered by water, and that’s where most weather takes place. Thousands of ships have criss-crossed the oceans, noting the weather in handwritten logbooks that for decades sat forgotten in bookshelves and basements.
FULL ARTICLE: https://www.reuters.com/investigates...-ice-shiplogs/
By ANDREW R.C. MARSHALL in OXFORD, ENGLAND
Filed: December 11, 2019, 2 p.m. GMT
Meteorologists have long recorded the weather at land-based stations. But nearly three-quarters of the planet is covered by water, and that’s where most weather takes place. Thousands of ships have criss-crossed the oceans, noting the weather in handwritten logbooks that for decades sat forgotten in bookshelves and basements.
FULL ARTICLE: https://www.reuters.com/investigates...-ice-shiplogs/