During the 19th and 20th centuries, thousands of ships sailed across the Southern Ocean. These ship voyages included cargo transport, emigration from the Old World to the New World, hunting for resources (e.g. whales), as well as epic missions of exploration and scientific discovery.Even in the face of constant hardship during tough conditions, these sailors and explorers recorded weather observations for navigation and scientific purposes. Our team has uncovered thousands of old ship log books and records from Antarctic explorations in archives around the world, which is a tremendous resource for climate science.We need your help to get old Southern Ocean and Antarctic weather data off the pages in old log books and fed into a super-computer, which will bring them to life in a daily weather animation for Antarctica and the Southern Ocean.With your help, we can use that animation to better understand past weather patterns and evaluate historic climate trends from a region we know little about.Are you ready to help us find data treasure from the waters surrounding Antarctica?Let's go!!
https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/drewdeepsouth/southern-weather-discovery/about/research
Ongoing
2018
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It uses ICTs to digitize old data
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United States of America — Private Sector
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