Authors and acknowledgements

This document is currently maintained by Philip Brohan (philip.brohan @ metoffice.gov.uk). All criticism should be directed to him - put please don’t send email, raise an issue instead.

All blame should go to the maintainer; credit is more widely distributed:

• This document was written by Philip Brohan (Met Office). He was funded by the Joint DECC and Defra Integrated Climate Programme, DECC/Defra (GA01101).

• Each case study project has its own list of contributors:

  • Weather observations from marine expeditions
  • New UK-region weather observations digitised from the Daily Weather Reports
  • Royal Navy observations for the WW2 period
  • Weather observations from English East India Company ships
  • oldWeather.org phases 1&2
  • oldWeather.org phase 3
  • Auto-transcription benchmark 1: Fort William pressures

• The automatic transcription test was done by Gilbert P. Compo, Prashant D. Sardeshmukh, Chesley McColl, Lawrence Spencer, Raj Rajagopal, William F. West, Philip Brohan and Kevin Wood. It was funded by the Climate Science for Service Partnership China.

Note that appearance on this list does not mean that the person or organisation named endorses this work, agrees with any of it, or even knows of its existence.