Sharing our results

[Randi]

We need not only to make our results available to everyone, but also to make sure they stay available for the next hundred years. So we are sending our new records to the International Comprehensive Ocean-Atmosphere Dataset which, as it says on the tin, is the international repository for our sort of records. ICOADS is freely available to any user, and actively managed to make sure nothing gets lost over the years.

We're also experimenting with other ways of sharing the data - a large batch is already available in Google Earth, for example, and there will be more of this.

We've produced an impressive batch of results since we started the project, and I'm sometimes asked what, exactly is being done with them all. Some of the results, like those I've posted on the blog, and the ship histories on navalhistory.net, you already know about, but we are starting to have a much wider impact.

Weather & Climate:

There are at least 5 major climate reconstructions currently in progress using our new weather observations:

1. 20CR Version 3 (NOAA/University of Colorado)
2. Era-Clim (ECMWF)
3. SODA (Texas A&M)
4. HURDAT (NOAA)
5. HadISST2 (Met Office)

Ship histories:

New museum exhibits inspired by or involving our work are in planning or preparation at:

1. The National Maritime Museum
2. The National Museum of the Royal Navy
3. The British Library

Rule one of any project is "It always takes longer than you think - even after allowing for rule one", and that's certainly true here - none of this work is finished yet. But we've plenty to look forward to, and I'm confident that even more uses will emerge.