Philip Brohan’s stuff

I am old enough to have a homepage as a central web presence, but this page is rarely updated; for real-time action, see my pages at Twitter, GitHub, or Vimeo.

Software

• Tools for weather model and reanalysis data:

  • IRData: Accessing synoptic-timescale Reanalysis Data with Iris
  • Meteorographica: Python code for plotting weathermaps

• Tools for International Maritime Meteorological Archive records:

  • Python package for IMMA records
  • Older Perl and Javascript IMMA software

• Tools for station weather observations:

  • File format and Python API for newly-digitised historical weather observations

Datasets

• Auto-transcription benchmark
• New historical UK-region observations
• Weather observations from marine expeditions
• ICOADS3+: Bias-adjusted early marine pressures
• Royal Navy observations for the WW2 period
• Weather observations from English East India Company ships
• Weather observations from station archives

Analyses

• Using Amazon Textract for data rescue
• The Twentieth-Century Reanalysis version 3
• Do-it-yourself Data Assimilation (incomplete)

Reports

• Approaches to transcription of weather observations

Collaborations

• Atmospheric Circulation Reconstructions over the Earth (ACRE)
• oldweather.org. See also the blog
• International Comprehensive Ocean-Atmosphere DataSet (ICOADS)
• Southern Weather Discovery

Oddments

• Grandma’s Book

I have given up writing research papers (I make datasets, software, and videos instead), but many of those I have written are listed by Google Scholar