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Old Weather: Our Weather’s Past, the Climate’s Future

Introduction

Help scientists recover worldwide weather observations made by Royal Navy ships around the time of World War I. These transcriptions will contribute to climate model projections and improve a database of weather extremes. Historians will use your work to track past ship movements and the stories of the people on board.

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1. Follow vessels

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2. Digitise pages

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3. Get promoted

Project Statistics

Old Weather transcriptions so far

24,926

VOLUNTEER TRANSCRIBERS

831,200

245

PAGES DONE

SHIPS COMPLETE

Why Scientists Need You

Scientists explain why your contributions are vital, and what they’re doing with your results behind the scenes. More Information

What_is_old_weather

Using old weather observations to predict the climate's future.

TRANSCRIBE

Help us find the weather measurements to build a climate model.

Historic_data

Learn about our log books and the people that kept them.

VESSELS

Discover the ships these logbooks came from and how the data is contributing to our knowledge.

Climate_data

How the data from logs is used to build climate models.

WHO WE ARE

Find out about some of the people behind the project and how they will be using the data you are finding.

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