Old Weather is alive and well

[Michael]

We are definitely converting and analyzing/utilizing the OldWeather data transcriptions for scientific research purposes! With this being said, I would kindly encourage all of you who are actively involved with the transcription work that is associated with the OldWeather Citizen Science Project to please continue performing all of the really excellent work that you have been doing so far.

Here is the direct link to an article that is entitled "Getting oldWeather data ship-shape for science", which I had written and posted onto the official Old Weather Blog a few years ago back on Tuesday, December 4, 2018. Please take the time and read this particular article, even if you have already read it sometime in the past. It is a really excellent source of encouragement for individuals who are actively involved with the project, and I also think that it would serve as a really excellent source for encouraging new individuals to become actively involved with the transcription work that is associated with this particular project.

Lawrence John Spencer, Jr.
Professional Research Assistant/Associate Scientist II
Dynamics and Multiscale Interactions Research Team
University of Colorado-Boulder/Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences
NOAA/OAR/ESRL Physical Sciences Laboratory

[Hanibal94]

Thank you so much, Michael, for sharing this with us.
My doubts have now been banished, and I shall continue pumping out excellent transcriptions!

[Michael]

[Michael]

I was curious about how much weather and ice data we have collected during the life of the project:

• Ship positions: 935,500
• Ice data: 32,277 items
• Weather data: 3,187,393 items

[AvastMH]

That's epic, truly epic - and there's a bit of whaler to add to that I guess

[pommystuart]

Gee, looking at the Thetis voyage there were some big errors in that year. I guess mainly E & W errors. (I hope that was not the year that I did. )

[Michael]

Here is a summary of the work we have done since the start of the U. S. Federal ships project to the end of 2023. The numbers are small for 2017 because many transcribers were still completing the work on the Phase III Arctic ships.

Year	Files	Pages	Ship Hours	Wx Records	Ice Records	Miles Travelled	Mods to Spreadsheets
2017	11	1,392	28,149	58,609	471	44,923	N/A
2018	39	9,915	207,009	395,460	17,209	602,587	N/A
2019	27	7,859	142,174	543,474	7,400	338,241	141
2020	39	14,693	259,124	1,467,018	6,357	504,572	116
2021	55	10,345	207,266	1,179,473	553	738,336	80
2022	36	10,714	242,062	2,057,731	694	440,485	99
2023	41	11,903	278,050	1,915,115	508	449,175	60
Totals	248	66,821	1,363,834	7,616,880	33,192	3,118,319	496

[Michael]

Here are the totals for our weather elements to the end of 2023.

Weather Element	Number
Wind Direction	838,159
Wind Speed	836,680
Pressure	824,267
Attached Thermometer	327,312
Dry Bulb Temperature	825,200
Wet Bulb Temperature	706,769
Sea Surface Temperature	317,096
Sea Intake Temperature	9,531
Main Water Injection Temperature	2,340
Weather	840,130
Clouds	662,783
Low Cloud	61,127
Mid Cloud	15,870
High Cloud	6,618
Ceiling Height	2,514
Ceiling Height	83,079
Cloud From	182,528
Tenths Sky Cloudy	409,104
Tenths Sky Clear	345,975
Visibility	319,798
Total	7,616,880