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Results
What's next, now that your citizen science projects have been completed?
Climate History Australia will continue with this important work. Our Zooniverse volunteers collected over 26 years' worth of 'new' historical weather data from the 19th Century. Now, it's the analysis stage. There's an outline of the three papers (in prep) that they'll be working on for the rest of this year and probably into 2022 here: https://climatehistory.com.au/publications/
Do you have any results from your previous citizen science project yet?
We do! There are some preliminary results for both our Adelaide and Perth citizen science project that ran on Zooniverse in 2020 and 2021 on the Climate History Australia website.
If you’re keen for more details, check out our blogs, here: www://climatehistory.com.au/news.
We’ll keep people up-to-date on our website when we release the results in a scientific journal publication.
Where can volunteers find and access our results?
Reporting back the results to our volunteers is very important to us at Climate History Australia. Our website, www.climatehistory.com.au, offers more detail about the research we do, and as well as regular updates in our News articles.
We will notify volunteers on result releases via our Zooniverse Forum, our Facebook, Twitter, and our website. You might like to sign up to our e-newsletter so you’ll be notified as soon as we share any results or major announcements: www.climatehistory.com.au/involved.
Where will the data be stored and used?
Once we've finished analysis, the final data will be stored in global repositories enabling research into our southern Australian climate. For more information, you might be interested in checking out the international Atmospheric Circulation Reconstructions over the Earth (ACRE) initiative.
What's our plan for aggregating results?
We have a team that is strong in data science, and they’ve been working closely with our key partners and other historical climatology experts.
We will first establish the consensus values based on the eight transcriptions we receive of each observation. Once this is done, we then examine the quality of the data, as these observations were made with historical instruments which differ from modern records.
We also attempt to remove any changes in the record which are due to non-climate factors. For example, if the location where these observations were taken changes, or if the instrument that is used to take the observations, changes. These checks are incredibly important for interrogating natural variability and daily weather extremes such as heatwaves or cold extremes.
We are indebted to the support of Dr Drew Lorrey from Southern Weather Discovery and Prof Ed Hawkins from the Rainfall Rescue project for sharing their expertise and processing codes with us.