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[Randi]

[Randi]

Happy Birthday
AJP !

[Michael]

Happy Birthday, AJP!!!

[pommystuart]

Av a cuppa for your Birthday from us Mate.

[Morgan]

Have a good one, and many more to come! Happy Birthday.

[Randi]

Happy Birthday
April !
(arboggs)

[Michael]

Happy Birthday, April!!!

[Caro]

Happy birthday April

[Morgan]

Happpy Birthday

[pommystuart]

Hope you had a great day.

[arboggs]

Thanks everyone and happy birthday to AJP, too!

I broke with tradition and instead of a cake I had an apple pie this year, the kind that has about 4 pounds of apples in the filling and has a nice streusel top. Absolutely perfect with a morning cup of coffee.

[Michael]

[pommystuart]

Good Luck America.

[studentforever]

I see the Singapore Government is interested in local historical weather reports and has access to some of the Royal Navy logbooks. Zooniverse are hosting a tr.anscription project. As usual they simplify the transcription and you are presented with individual columns of data to enter from random ships. They just seem to have the weather data, the page I investigated had no events at all. However that is another batch of weather data for the scientists to work on. Not sure how many ships they have but they are all in the same general region i.e Singapore so unlike our voyages they focus on the area rather than the ship.

https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/p-t ... t/research

Just thought I'd dip into their "Talk" section - very peculiar format and you have to log on to see very much. However, I think they are doing complete voyages rather than just the section round Singpore. The couple of contributions I did manage to see mentioned places which definitely weren't around Singapore. Thought I might contribute but I would find it frustrating not to have access to the complete log - the events can be really interesting - they've kept me hooked for years!!

[Randi]

Japanese Scientists Bet on an Ancient Material for Their New Satellite: Wood

[pommystuart]

An extension to our inputs.
https://beta.bom.gov.au/video/highlight ... monitoring

[studentforever]

The Navy has now confirmed that the wreck discovered off Frazerburgh earlier this year is HMS Hawke. More that 500 men lost their lives in the incident. Seems a good time of year to say RIP.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gx81ne5jko

[BillNoise]

Does anyone know what will happen to the data we're generating if NOAA's status changes? Is this data directly used by any other institutions or is controlled by NOAA?

[Randi]

We're trying to find out.

[Michael]

I believe our data is entered into six different climate databases around the world. This is from a post by Lawrence Spencer from six years ago. Lawrence gets our data directly from us and then processes it as necessary, etc. Lawrence mentions only a couple of other international datasets, but somewhere I read there were about six. One in England, one in Germany, I think. I just don't remember all the details any more.

This IMMA-formatted data (International Marine Meteorological Archive) is being used in several ways, notably for assimilation into the Twentieth Century Reanalysis Project (20CR) and for distribution through international databases, such as the International Comprehensive Ocean-Atmosphere Data Set (ICOADS) and the International Surface Pressure Databank (ISPD). For example, this IMMA-formatted data for OldWeather3 ships will be archived as an ICOADS auxiliary dataset in the Research Data Archive (RDA) at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) located in Boulder, Colorado. The overarching purpose of doing this work is to develop weather and climate models and to better predict and understand extreme, high-impact weather and climate phenomena on a global scale. We would be much less able to successfully accomplish this purpose without our oldWeather volunteers! So, I want to extend a huge “thank-you” to all of our volunteers for contributing so much time, effort, and dedication to this project ….. because it all starts with the very critical step of getting the observations and positions contained in the original ship logbooks accurately transcribed!