Scientists have long sought more data on a curious blip in climate known as the “World War II warm anomaly.”
Now, researchers and citizen-scientists have “rescued” over 630,000 records from the era, many from ships that were bombed in Pearl Harbor and that saw action in the Pacific theater during the war.published in Geoscience Data Journal, researchers tell the story of how the records entered the scientific record after seven decades.
Scientists have long sought more data and weather observations from the World War II era, which coincided with a curious blip in climate known as the “.” During that time, the existing sea-surface temperature logs recorded higher-than-expected temperatures.
It would have taken decades for researchers to transcribe observations from the documents, so researchers teamed up with 4,050 volunteer transcribers in a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration-funded citizen-science project. More than 13 million keystrokes and a year later, their work resulted in a mammoth data set including more than 3.7 million previously unavailable observations.Now, scientists can get to work correcting and better understanding the climate record.
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