Engaging secondary school students in climate data rescue through service‐learning partnerships
Long-term instrumental series are necessary for a greater understanding of past climate variability and trends and to better assess the frequency, magnitude and duration of past extreme weather events (Klein Tank et al., 2009).
C. Mateus, A. Potito, M. Curley
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Recovering additional historical weather observations from known archival sources will improve the understanding of how the climate is changing and enable detailed examination of unusual events within the historical record. The UK National Meteorological
Ed Hawkins +12 more
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Sunspot observations at Kawaguchi Science Museum: 1972 – 2013
Individual sunspot observations have formed a ground basis of international sunspot number, a unique reference for long‐term solar variability in the centennial timescale.
Hisashi Hayakawa +5 more
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Timeline Visualization Uncovers Gaps in Archived Tsunami Water Level Data
We demonstrate that data abstraction via a timeline visualization is highly effective at allowing one to discover patterns in the underlying data.
Aaron D. Sweeney, Aaron D. Sweeney
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Preserving the impossible: conservation of soft-sediment hominin footprint sites and strategies for three-dimensional digital data capture. [PDF]
Human footprints provide some of the most publically emotive and tangible evidence of our ancestors. To the scientific community they provide evidence of stature, presence, behaviour and in the case of early hominins potential evidence with respect to ...
AH Gonzalez +45 more
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Modelling the reliability of search operations within the UK through Bayesian belief networks [PDF]
This paper uses a Bayesian belief networks (BBN) methodology to assess the reliability of search and rescue (SAR) operations within the UK coastguard (maritime rescue) coordination centers.
Quigley, J.L. +2 more
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A Critical Literature Review of Historic Scientific Analog Data: Uses, Successes, and Challenges
For years scientists in fields from climate change to biodiversity to hydrology have used older data to address contemporary issues. Since the 1960s researchers, recognizing the value of this data, have expressed concern about its management and ...
Julia A. Kelly +4 more
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Temperature, precipitation and sunshine across China, 1912‐51: A new daily instrumental dataset
This project compiled 463,530 instrumental observations of daily temperature, precipitation and sunshine at up to 319 stations in China between 1912 and 1951.
Ivan P.L. Png +5 more
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Living in times of war: waste of c. 1600 from two garderobe chutes from the Castle of Middelburg-in-Flanders (Belgium) [PDF]
The material remains and environmental data recovered during a rescue excavation in 2002-03 in the castle of the new town of Middelburg-in-Flanders throw light on the site, region and landscape in wartime.
Caluwé, D +13 more
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Revisiting the early instrumental temperature records of Basel and Geneva
Basel and Geneva have two of the longest meteorological records in Switzerland, covering more than two and a half centuries. The respective monthly temperature series were published over 60 years ago and are part of todays main global temperature data ...
Yuri Brugnara, Stefan Brönnimann
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