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Two years ago there were 65,000 sheets of paper containing hand-written measurements of rainfall taken all across the UK & Ireland before 1960. Virtually all of the 5.28 million observations on these sheets were unavailable to climate scientists as they had never been digitised. 
Thanks to @metoffice archives, these sheets were scanned & made openly available, but how could the observations be extracted?
The answer? Ask for help: bbc.co.uk/news/science-e…
16,000 volunteers stepped forward during the first UK COVID lockdown to transcribe every observation.
The answer? Ask for help: bbc.co.uk/news/science-e…
16,000 volunteers stepped forward during the first UK COVID lockdown to transcribe every observation.
After a year of continued effort by a small team of volunteers we can now release the data!
Rainfall Rescue dataset v1.0.0:
doi.org/10.5281/zenodo…
3.3 million observations have been quality controlled, and combined into time series from 8485 rain gauges from 6095 locations.
Rainfall Rescue dataset v1.0.0:
doi.org/10.5281/zenodo…
3.3 million observations have been quality controlled, and combined into time series from 8485 rain gauges from 6095 locations.
The #RainfallRescue volunteers are now digitising the very earliest UK rainfall data, from the 1860s and earlier.
Some stretch back to 1677, or they might stumble across rainfall records taken by Luke Howard.
Will they finish the job today or tomorrow? rainfallrescue.org
Some stretch back to 1677, or they might stumble across rainfall records taken by Luke Howard.
Will they finish the job today or tomorrow? rainfallrescue.org
5 million observations rescued so far for the 1870s to 1950s. #RainfallRescue
Day 16 of #RainfallRescue.
The 15,607 volunteers will today finish transcribing the last of the 65,000 sheets of 10-year monthly rainfall amounts for the UK, spanning 1677 to 1960.
Truly amazing to see 5+ million measurements rescued from paper to digital in such a short time.
The 15,607 volunteers will today finish transcribing the last of the 65,000 sheets of 10-year monthly rainfall amounts for the UK, spanning 1677 to 1960.
Truly amazing to see 5+ million measurements rescued from paper to digital in such a short time.
