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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:

NOAA logo National Archives logo

Other Federal Government Sponsor: NOAA and National Archives and Records Administration

Fields of Science: Climate and weather

Intended Outcomes: Research development,