Reconstructing weather and climate from library and archive records
The International Atmospheric Circulation Reconstructions over the Earth (ACRE) initiative undertakes and facilitates the recovery and digitisation of global, historical surface terrestrial and marine weather observations. We find these observations in archives, libraries, museums and the like all around the world. Once digitised, these data underpin weather and climate reconstructions (reanalyses) spanning the last 200-250 years. In this presentation, we will give an overview of ACRE, showcasing both a UK and an Argentine ‘end-to-end’ case-study illustrating the process going from data rescue through a reanalysis to weather/climate applications. All of the historical weather data and the resulting climate reanalyses are freely available to researchers with interests in climate science, applications, impacts, risks and extremes. www.met-acre.net
Date: 5 February 2019, 11:30
Venue: Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: 3rd floor Seminar Room
Speakers: Prof Rob Allen (Met Office Hadley Centre), Dr Philip Brohan (Met Office Hadley Centre)
Organising department: School of Geography and the Environment
Organiser contact email address: heritage@ouce.ox.ac.uk
Host: Dr Oliver Cox (Heritage Engagement Fellow, University of Oxford)
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Booking required?: Not required
Audience: Members of the University only
Editor: Julie Eklund