The Quest to Scan Millions of Weather Records - CityLab

Deep in the dusty catalogs of weather stations and meteorological offices
all over the world are hidden treasures. They're easy to miss if you're not
looking for them, often taking the form of piles of moldy papers. But on
those pieces of paper are hundreds of years of weather records—data that
could make climate science far more accurate.

The International Environmental Data Rescue Organization
<http://iedro.org/> (IEDRO)
estimates that there are 100 million paper-strip charts—records that list
weather conditions—sitting in meteorological storage facilities throughout
the world. That’s about 200 million observations unused by scientists, data
that could greatly improve their models. Now, a few small groups of
scientists are trying digitize these records, but they’re facing all kinds
of obstacles.


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