Sentences with phrase «ship logbook»

-- Whaling ship logbook entries that noted ship position along with an indication of whether the ship was in the presence of ice....

Day's study helps to fill in this data gap using ship logbooks kept by Antarctic explorers during the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration between 1897 and 1917.

While a 14 % loss is not an insignificant amount, it's smaller than some of the changes in Antarctic sea ice recorded during the middle of the 20th century, as estimated from whaling ship logbooks, the paper says.

The collection and digitisation of the ship logbooks is a huge undertaking and continues to add significant amounts of 20th Century and earlier data to the records.

Not exact matches

Until now, Old Weather has mined logbooks from historic federal ships» logs, scanned in recent years at the National Archives in Washington, D.C..

Including the new logbooks, the Old Weather effort has scanned more than 500,000 handwritten pages from historic ship logs, and Old Weather volunteers have so far transcribed almost 3 million historical weather records for use in climate and environmental research.

An update launched Dec. 3 expands the project to also include hundreds of whaling ships, whose logbooks were preserved and scanned into digital form from New England museums and libraries.

They were helped by various other research groups as part of the International Comprehensive Ocean - Atmosphere Data Set (ICOADS), a worldwide effort to recover weather data from ships» logbooks.

As part of these missions, scientists recorded the position and state of the sea ice in ships» logbooks, explains Day:

DeHaan, captain of the Noordendam, would see it when he put the ship to bed for the night — he never failed to check the logbook before going to his cabin.

Travel four continents, find the ship's logbook and its missing pages to find out the truth about your Granddad's past, and save his life!

One effort called Old Weather, for example, asks people with spare time to translate ships» logbooks and extract weather data, which researchers can then use to both understand historic weather patterns and model future ones.