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.

Machine Learning

• Weather Forecasting without the difficult bits

• Weather2weather: Forecast the weather using tensorflow and the pix2pix model

• Experiments in Machine Learning with climate data

• Using Amazon Textract for data rescue

• Using Google Vision for data rescue

Analyses

• The Twentieth-Century Reanalysis version 3

• Do-it-yourself Data Assimilation

Reports

• Approaches to transcription of 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

• Ship logs at NARA

Collaborations

• Atmospheric Circulation Reconstructions over the Earth (ACRE)

• oldweather.org. See also the blog

• International Comprehensive Ocean-Atmosphere DataSet (ICOADS)

• Southern Weather Discovery

Talks

• A new look at a 1931 flood. (2021-09-07, online).

• New uses for old weather. (2019-06-24, at NCAR).

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 API for newly-digitised historical weather observations

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