Icebound: The climate-change secrets of 19th century ship's logs
December 11, 2019 2:58 PM Subscribe
Oh, to me one of the coolest things they recorded was cloud formation and cloud cover, because it could tell them a lot about fronts. There is a whole system of cloud classification beyond cirrus and cumulous that I didn't know about.
posted by muddgirl at 3:56 PM on December 11, 2019 [5 favorites]
posted by muddgirl at 3:56 PM on December 11, 2019 [5 favorites]
Fascinating, thanks for posting this!
posted by carter at 4:04 PM on December 11, 2019 [1 favorite]
posted by carter at 4:04 PM on December 11, 2019 [1 favorite]
fuck... Old Weather is such a good name
posted by stinkfoot at 5:24 PM on December 11, 2019 [3 favorites]
posted by stinkfoot at 5:24 PM on December 11, 2019 [3 favorites]
I transcribed some of these records too :) They make it really easy to participate.
posted by oneirodynia at 5:29 PM on December 11, 2019 [5 favorites]
posted by oneirodynia at 5:29 PM on December 11, 2019 [5 favorites]
To provide the requisite links, Old Weather is one of the oldest active zooniverse projects, second to Galaxy Zoo.
posted by zamboni at 6:55 PM on December 11, 2019 [6 favorites]
posted by zamboni at 6:55 PM on December 11, 2019 [6 favorites]
It looks like they haven't released any data or results yet?
To be honest, 9+ years without a release is, ah, not all that great. What's up?
posted by cowcowgrasstree at 7:35 PM on December 11, 2019 [1 favorite]
To be honest, 9+ years without a release is, ah, not all that great. What's up?
posted by cowcowgrasstree at 7:35 PM on December 11, 2019 [1 favorite]
I believe data is incorporated into https://icoads.noaa.gov/
posted by muddgirl at 7:47 PM on December 11, 2019 [3 favorites]
posted by muddgirl at 7:47 PM on December 11, 2019 [3 favorites]
If you want just the Old Weather data, it's here.
posted by muddgirl at 7:50 PM on December 11, 2019 [4 favorites]
posted by muddgirl at 7:50 PM on December 11, 2019 [4 favorites]
Thank you muddgirl, that makes much more sense.
posted by cowcowgrasstree at 7:50 PM on December 11, 2019 [1 favorite]
posted by cowcowgrasstree at 7:50 PM on December 11, 2019 [1 favorite]
A journalist friend of mine posted this yesterday and I just want to chime in (because no one has said this yet): This is an amazing piece of writing, entertaining, informative, just compelling end to end. I saw it was crazy-long and still couldn't bail on it. So many memorable characters, from turn-of-the-century ship captains to little old English ladies. Awesome.
posted by martin q blank at 7:48 AM on December 13, 2019
posted by martin q blank at 7:48 AM on December 13, 2019
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posted by muddgirl at 3:46 PM on December 11, 2019 [28 favorites]