IASC workshop on Data Rescue, Citizen-Science and Collaborative Research took place in Reykjavik, Iceland (11th and 12th of November 2013). In this event 22 scientists attended. During two days there were 24 presentations concerning history of the climate in the Arctic, problems with data and its homogeneity, on-line databases and portals about the Arctic.
The Workshop ended with “Nuts and Bolts”. After discussion there were some conclusions made. Most important are the benefits for early carrier researchers.
The attendance at the Workshop was a great opportunity for us to be encouraged to consider some new methods that could be used in our project entitled ‘Variability of the Russian Arctic and Subarctic climate in the last three hundred years’.
Key issues are:
– Using combined 19th century Russian pressure maps (from Petersburg) with pressure charts generated from 20CR to conduct time and spatial analyses of atmospheric circulation. It is inspiration after Phil Jones presentation.
– Another benefit of our attendance at the workshop is the opportunity to get new contacts with Russian scientists from NOAA. This could help us to find old Russian logbooks. Also after talk with Igor Krupnik we are encouraged to search for contact with other early carrier scientists due to the younger generation is more opened in data exchanging, e.g. APECS (Association of Polar Early Career Scientists). Przemysław is already a member of APECS.
– Inspired by CLIWOC’s W-index, we want to perform similar analyses of atmospheric measurements from Norwegian yachts crossing the Barents, Norwegian and Greenland seas. Up till now we have already digitized their locations. Moreover we would like to present them routes in a similar way as was shown in animations by Philip Brohan e.g ‘Jannete’ vessel.
IASC Workshop Participants
We want to thank IASC for the financial support.
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