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Help us better understand our changing climate by transcribing ship weather logbooks from the early industrial era
Learn moreWe are transcribing historical ship weather logbooks written in the mid-19th Century. The logbooks contain many different weather parameters. Select a weather parameter from the list below to transcribe those measurements from a set of logbook images.
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The longer we can look back through the weather records, the more confident we can be about the magnitude of changes in the climate since the start of the industrial era. With this evidence we can improve our future climate projections.
p_teletiAbout Weather Rescue At Sea
The aim of the Weather Rescue At Sea project is to construct and extended the global surface temperature record back to the 1780s, based on the air temperature observations recorded across the planet.
This will be achieved by crowd-sourcing the recovery (or data rescue) of the weather observations from historical ship logbooks, station records, weather journals and other sources, to produce a longer, and more consistent dataset of global surface temperature.