Those data have now been included in standard climate databases. And tracking that down can be hard.

Explore the Arctic of the past from the deck of a whaling ship. Rediscover the historic Arctic voyages of the U.

For ships logs from whaling ships in the Arctic. First commanded by Cdr A B H Lillie.

Wwiesmann is the Captain and 192 volunteers are following this vessel. Help scientists recover worldwide weather observations made by Royal Navy ships around the time of World War I. These transcriptions will contribute to climate model projections and improve a database of weather extremes. Historians will use your work to track past ship movements and the stories of the people on board. Old Weather transcriptions so far.