Old weather
Cs Portal > List of citizen science projects > Old Weather: Our Weather’s Past, the Climate’s Future - (2013/09/09)
IDENTIFICATION
- Beta start date : N/A
- End date : Still open.
- Natural sciences > (environment/climate)
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⇳ Description [[Has project description::Help scientists recover Arctic and worldwide weather observations made by United States’ ships since the mid-19th century. These transcriptions will contribute to climate model projections and will improve our knowledge of past environmental conditions. Historians will use your work to track past ship movements and tell the stories of the people on board. oldweather.org]] ➠ Purpose [[Has project purpose::The Old Weather project isn't about proving or disproving global warming. We need to collect as much historical data as we can over the oceans, because if we wish to understand what the weather will do in the future, then we need to understand what the weather was doing in the past. Why scientists need you (retrieved 7/2013)]] ? Research question
TEAM
Project team page http://www.oldweather.org/team Leader: Philip Brohan, Climate Scientist, Met Office (UK's national weather service) Institution: Partner institutions: Contact:
USER TASKS
CONTRIBUTION TYPE: data analysis
PARTICIPATION TYPOLOGY: distributed intelligence
GAMING GENRE NONE
GAMING ELEMENTS: Achievements
◉ Tasks description
⤯ Interaction with objects
▣ Interface
- Data type to manipulate: pictures, text
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GUIDANCE
- Tutorial: ✓
- Peer to peer guidance: Somewhat
- Training sequence: Somewhat
- Individual performance: ✓
- Collective performance: ✓
- Research progress: Somewhat
❂ Feedback and guidance description
COMMUNITY
- Communication: blog, newsletter, forum
- Social Network: N/A
- Member profiles:: N/A
- Member profile elements: photo, pseudo
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- Frequency of project news updates: N/A
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⏣ Community description
- Community size (volounteers based) 525
- Role:
- Interaction form:
- Has official community manager(s): maybe
- Has team work N/A
- Other: Member profiles are managed through the Zooinverse portal. However, forum accounts are managed locally by each project.
- Community led additions:
Other information
PROJECT
Url:http://www.oldweather.org/
Start date:
End date: Still open
Infrastructure: Zooniverse
TEAM
Official team page:http://www.oldweather.org/team
Leader: Philip Brohan, Climate Scientist, Met Office (UK's national weather service)
PROJECT DEFINITION
Subject
Natural sciences > (environment/climate)
Description
Help scientists recover Arctic and worldwide weather observations made by United States’ ships since the mid-19th century. These transcriptions will contribute to climate model projections and will improve our knowledge of past environmental conditions. Historians will use your work to track past ship movements and tell the stories of the people on board. oldweather.org
Purpose.
The Old Weather project isn't about proving or disproving global warming. We need to collect as much historical data as we can over the oceans, because if we wish to understand what the weather will do in the future, then we need to understand what the weather was doing in the past. Why scientists need you (retrieved 7/2013)
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COMMUNITY
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Community size (volounteers based): 525 |
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Other information about community: Member profiles are managed through the Zooinverse portal. However, forum accounts are managed locally by each project.
Community led additions:
OTHER PROJECT INFORMATION
Oldweather.png Yes [[has completion level::High]
http://www.oldweather.org/team
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Natural sciences environment/climate [[Has project purpose::The Old Weather project isn't about proving or disproving global warming. We need to collect as much historical data as we can over the oceans, because if we wish to understand what the weather will do in the future, then we need to understand what the weather was doing in the past. Why scientists need you (retrieved 7/2013)]]
Old Weather: Our Weather’s Past, the Climate’s Future
data analysis
distributed intelligence pictures, text, other: Thinking: yes Computing: no Sensing: no Gaming: no achievements
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strong
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N/A photo, pseudo maybe blog, newsletter, forum N/A
525 N/A Member profiles are managed through the Zooinverse portal. However, forum accounts are managed locally by each project.
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