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

ABSTRACT: 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.

SUBMITTER: Lorrey AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9214331 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature