Summer Series | Improving Atmospheric Reconstructions for Historical Extreme Events
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Summer Series | A fresh look at the RMetS virtual meetings of this season.
The RMetS Summer Series showcased previous virtual meetings by re-sharing the recordings from the events. You can watch these for free alongside other fellow academics and enthusiasts.
The Series will ran during lunch times, providing a refreshing break every Wednesday in July and August.
If you have any questions regarding the Summer Series, please email meetings@rmets.org.
This is a showing of a previous Taster session presented by Ed Hawkins.
ABSTRACT | Our understanding of past changes in weather and climate rely on the availability of observations made over many decades. However, billions of historical weather observations are effectively lost to science as they are still only available in their original paper form in various archives around the world. The large-scale digitisation of these observations would substantially improve atmospheric circulation reconstructions back to the 1850s. Recently, volunteer citizen scientists have been assisting with the rescue of millions of these lost observations taken across western Europe over a hundred years ago. The value of these data for understanding many notable and extreme weather events will be demonstrated.
Summer Series | A fresh look at the RMetS virtual meetings of this season.
The RMetS Summer Series showcased previous virtual meetings by re-sharing the recordings from the events. You can watch these for free alongside other fellow academics and enthusiasts.
The Series will ran during lunch times, providing a refreshing break every Wednesday in July and August.
If you have any questions regarding the Summer Series, please email meetings@rmets.org.
This is a showing of a previous Taster session presented by Ed Hawkins.
ABSTRACT | Our understanding of past changes in weather and climate rely on the availability of observations made over many decades. However, billions of historical weather observations are effectively lost to science as they are still only available in their original paper form in various archives around the world. The large-scale digitisation of these observations would substantially improve atmospheric circulation reconstructions back to the 1850s. Recently, volunteer citizen scientists have been assisting with the rescue of millions of these lost observations taken across western Europe over a hundred years ago. The value of these data for understanding many notable and extreme weather events will be demonstrated.