Collaborators

Weather observations are many people’s business, and there are many people and groups, in the UK and around the world, interested in digitising more of them.

Regional chapters of the ACRE project

• The main community of practice in the field is the Atmospheric Circulation Reconstructions over the Earth (ACRE) project

  • ACRE operates in part through regional chapters: Ed Hawkins, at the University of Reading, leads the ‘British and Irish Isles’ chapter, and is currently working on the Daily Weather Reports .

• There is a research community working on digitisation as a process - efficient methods for digitising paper records of various sorts. Notable:

  • Zooniverse specialise in citizen science approaches.
  • Transkribus are working on automated tools for handwritten text digitisation.
  • AWS Textract are building easy-to-use tools for printed document analysis.

• The WMO have an Expert Team on Data Rescue
• The Copernicus Climate Change Service is supporting data rescue both through the C3S DRS and C3S GLAMOD projects. Rescued data will be available through the Climate Datastore and will be used in their planned long-timescale reanalysis.

Given that ACRE is active, effective and available, the best way to benefit from collaboration is to work with them.