US EditionHow ships bombed at Pearl Harbor could help scientists understand climate change
- Logbooks from US vessels bombed at Pearl Harbor more than 80 years ago have provided valuable weather data that helps scientists understand climate change. Despite being damaged in the surprise attack, ships like the USS Pennsylvania and USS Tennessee continued to collect data on sea surface temperatures and wind speed. This data is crucial as it fills a gap in observations during the war due to trade route disruptions.
- The data collected by the ships during the war suggests that there was a reduction in observations, with more data collection done during the day to minimize exposure to enemy ships. These changes in data collection might have led to slightly warmer temperatures being recorded, which explains the abnormal warmth period documented in history books. Researchers believe that studying this data will allow them to understand how the world's climate behaved during a time of tremendous upheaval.
- Volunteers played a crucial role in transcribing the images of the damaged logbooks, helping researchers analyze the three million individual observations collected by 19 vessels. The findings from this project have been published in the Geoscience Data Journal, and it is important to recognize the brave servicemen who recorded this data during a time of war.
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Weather observations from bombed battleships' logbooks help scientists understand climate change
Weather data from several ships bombed by Japanese pilots at Pearl Harbor has been recovered in a rescue mission that will help scientists understand how the global climate is changing.
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