Meteorological data rescue: Citizen science lessons learned from Southern Weather Discovery

Lorrey, Andrew M.; Pearce, Petra R.; Allan, Rob; Wilkinson, Clive; Woolley, John-Mark; Judd, Emily; Mackay, Stuart; Rawhat, Sudhir; Slivinski, Laura; Wilkinson, Sally; Hawkins, Ed; Quesnel, Patrick; Compo, Gilbert P.

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Meteorological data rescue: Citizen science lessons learned from Southern Weather Discovery

2022
By Lorrey, Andrew M. ; Pearce, Petra R. ; Allan, Rob ; ...

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Patterns
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Lorrey, Andrew M. ; Pearce, Petra R. ; Allan, Rob ; Wilkinson, Clive ; Woolley, John-Mark ; Judd, Emily ; Mackay, Stuart ; Rawhat, Sudhir ; Slivinski, Laura ; Wilkinson, Sally ; Hawkins, Ed ; Quesnel, Patrick ; Compo, Gilbert P.
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OAR (Oceanic and Atmospheric Research) ; PSL (Physical Sciences Laboratory) ; CPO (Climate Program Office) ; CIRES (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences)
Description:

Daily weather reconstructions (called “reanalyses”) can help improve our understanding of meteorology and long-term climate changes. Adding undigitized historical weather observations to the datasets that underpin reanalyses is desirable; however, time requirements to capture those data from a range of archives is usually limited. Southern Weather Discovery is a citizen science data rescue project that recovered tabulated handwritten meteorological observations from ship log books and land-based stations spanning New Zealand, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica. We describe the Zooniverse-hosted Southern Weather Discovery campaign, highlight promotion tactics, and replicate keying levels needed to obtain 100% complete transcribed datasets with minimal type 1 and type 2 transcription errors. Rescued weather observations can augment optical character recognition (OCR) text recognition libraries. Closer links between citizen science data rescue and OCR-based scientific data capture will accelerate weather reconstruction improvements, which can be harnessed to mitigate impacts on communities and infrastructure from weather extremes.
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Patterns 3(6): 100495
DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patter.2022.100495
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Journal Article
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Grant no. NA17OAR4320101
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CC BY-NC-ND
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