The methodology has been published in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. This partnership has been very beneficial to both Met Éireann and Maynooth University and is still on-going. Some of the Met Éireann recipients of Réalta Award 2018. To date over 3,000 years of daily rainfall records (note that this does not mean a 3000-year time-series) have been rescued and are being used to create daily rainfall time-series dating back to the mid-19th century. The success of the project led to it being repeated in 2017. As part of a climate change course, undergraduate Geography students learnt about the importance of data rescue and earned credits by rescuing daily rainfall from images of the original records. In 2016 we undertook a pilot project “ Integrating data rescue into the classroom” in collaboration with the Geography Department in Maynooth University. Some of these projects are summarised below.
The importance of data rescue is recognised worldwide and Met Éireann is involved in I-DARE, a data rescue initiative set up by the World Meteorological Organization, and a European initiative by EUMETNET called DaRe. Data rescue is being carried out in Met Éireann and we are also involved in data digitisation projects with external organisations. The task of digitising these is daunting both logistically, and in terms of the volume of records that need to be rescued. Non-digitised data are at risk due to the vulnerability of the original paper record. However, except for data recorded at the synoptic stations available from 1941, rainfall and climate station records predating 1961 have not been digitised.
#Wow data rescue archive#
Met Éireann’s archive contains climate and rainfall records dating back to the mid-1800s.
#Wow data rescue verification#
They are also important for verification of climate models, allow trends and extreme events to be assessed on a longer time scale, support effective climate risk management and improve future climate projections. These data records are at risk, due to the vulnerability of the original paper, and it is therefore very important to digitise them to ensure that we have as long a climate record as possible.ĭigitised long-term, high quality climatological series are vital in order to understand climate change. Met Éireann’s archive contains handwritten climate and rainfall records dating back to the mid-1800s.
Peer-reviewed journal articles by Met Éireann staff membersĭata rescue is the process whereby original data records are catalogued, imaged and transformed into digital format. Past Weather Agrometeorological Bulletins
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