Building a Climate Time Machine: National Archives NOAA Old Weather Collaboration
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Channel: US National Archives · 2014 · Education
Through a groundbreaking collaboration, the National Archives and the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration have been digitizing US Navy and Coast Guard logbooks for posting on the NARA website. Digitized images are being sent to OLDWEATHER.ORG to be transcribed by thousands of volunteers around the world. From these transcriptions, climate scientists at NOAA and elsewhere have been able to unlock the climate data stored in these volumes reaching back 150 years to conduct current weather reanalysis, broadening our understanding of current and past climate patterns.
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