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New citizen science project launched for U.S. Navy weather observations from World War II

A new Old Weather project is now available on the Zooniverse citizen-science platform recovering weather data collected by U.S. Navy ships during World War II (1941-1945) that will drive sophisticated computer models used to reconstruct past weather events and improve future global climate projections.

Sepia image of a ship and a destroyer encountering a large wave sweeping past the oiler's bow

US Ship Pamansett and a destroyer in heavy seas in the East China Sea, 17 January 1945.

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