Old Weather Arctic LARGESCALE ENVIRONMENTAL DATA RESCUE THROUGH

W d Ol r e h t a e …the award is based around

Scientists want to compare past weather with the weather now

What about the 71% of wet bits? Not a problem ship mates…

Old Weather Phases 1 & 2 Royal Navy ships WW 1

We do like to enjoy ourselves so here’s another version of ugly – glasses

If I wanted to have a go – how does it work?

Draw a box over the data, select the data type

Draw a box over the data, select the data type Type what you see…including

So what do the scientists see? XX marks a problem User interface built by

This shows the BBC running the results into a view of how the weather

Port side Moment of Discovery! Jeannette Island (Ostrov Zhannetty)

A terrible price Jeannette crushed Melville’s party (In the Lena Delta) De Long’s men

Jeannette surgeon’s weather log Supplied by the US Navy Bureau of Medicine Archive after

What about the Arctic sea ice then? Thetis’ ice observations (black text) compared with

Is it all so serious? – oh no! History also records….

Extraordinary value-added Old Weather citizen-scientists produce their own research and project reference material (handwriting,

www. oldweather. org Thank you – hope to see you on the OW crew

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Old Weather Arctic LARGE-SCALE ENVIRONMENTAL DATA RESCUE THROUGH CROWDSOURCING K. Wood, P. Brohan, N. Soreide, J. Overland, M. Mollan, E. Hope, L. Mishonova, A. Smith, and more than 16, 400 contributors including Joan Arthur

W d Ol r e h t a e …the award is based around innovation in meteorology, with a particular focus on business and/or public impact…

Scientists want to compare past weather with the weather now

What about the 71% of wet bits?

What about the 71% of wet bits? Not a problem ship mates…

Old Weather Phases 1 & 2 Royal Navy ships WW 1

What is the data like? The Good

What is the data like? The Bad

What is the data like? and the Ugly

We do like to enjoy ourselves so here’s another version of ugly – glasses on!

If I wanted to have a go – how does it work?

Draw a box over the data, select the data type

Draw a box over the data, select the data type Type what you see…including blanks

So what do the scientists see? XX marks a problem User interface built by Arfon & Co at ZOONIVERSE

This shows the BBC running the results into a view of how the weather was looking around the world on the 19 th October 1952. Starboard The historians have video runs showing ship activities. This is the day after the Battle of Jutland Port

Starboard - Climate Joan

Port side Moment of Discovery! Jeannette Island (Ostrov Zhannetty)

A terrible price Jeannette crushed Melville’s party (In the Lena Delta) De Long’s men carry the logbooks ashore through a mile of broken ice Today (Jane Lubchenco, NOAA)

Jeannette surgeon’s weather log Supplied by the US Navy Bureau of Medicine Archive after public release of Old Weather – Arctic & photographed at the National Archives by project staff James M. M. Ambler, USN (1848 -1881)

What about the Arctic sea ice then? Thetis’ ice observations (black text) compared with alongtrack coverages from Had. ISST 1979 -2004 (max-mean-min)

Is it all so serious? – oh no! History also records….

Extraordinary value-added Old Weather citizen-scientists produce their own research and project reference material (handwriting, technical terms, place names, etc) Could not be done with a top-down approach Currently recorded: natural phenomenon, crew lists, burials at sea, discipline & desertion, ships met, notable events of all kinds… The bonus: word- date- position-searchable manuscript data

…and some jokers!

HMS Tarantula

…not (HMS) Wonganella

www. oldweather. org Thank you – hope to see you on the OW crew lists