Old Weather
Improved understanding of climate and environmental changes observed in the Arctic and worldwide demands vast amounts of currently inaccessible historical data. This program aims to recover these data—millions of weather, ocean, and sea-ice observations recorded by mariners and scientists over the past 150 years—and make them available in digital formats suitable for model assimilation, retrospective analysis (reanalysis), and other research.
Project URL: https://www.oldweather.org
Geographic Scope: Arctic, Global
Project Status: Active - recruiting volunteers
Participation Tasks: Annotation, Classification or tagging, Transcription,
Start Date: 2012-10-25
Project Contact: kevin.r.wood@noaa.gov
Federal Government Sponsor:
Other Federal Government Sponsor: NOAA and National Archives and Records Administration
Fields of Science: Climate and weather
Intended Outcomes: Research development,