Project News

GloSAT scientists from the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit (CRU) attended the ‘Climate Change and Sustainability Day’ at the Norwich Science Festival in February to speak to young people and members of the public about climate change.

GloSAT Postgraduate Researcher Emily Wallis and CRU Senior Research Associate Dr Sarah Wilson Kemsley, led an…

A new paper from National Oceanography Centre researchers “Quantifying Daytime Heating Biases in Marine Air Temperature Observations from Ships” has been published in the Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology. The paper, produced as part of the GloSAT project, outlines the technical framework under which previously unused marine air temperature (MAT) can be used in the…

GloSAT scientists at University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit (CRU) have collaborated with artist Gennadiy Ivanov in the creation of a 10-metre-long mural commissioned by Norwich City Council. The Climate Mural For Our Times was unveiled at Norwich City Hall at a launch event on Friday 25th November.

Climate Mural For Our Times depicts the impacts of a changing climate on Norfolk and Norwich from 66…

The GloSAT project held its annual meeting, hosted at the University of York Green Chemistry Centre of Excellence, this October. The meeting was held in a hybrid format, with most participants opting to join us in-person. Although the project has been running for 3 years, this was only the second time so many of us have been able to get together in-person and the first time many of us have met.

The meeting was an…

GloSAT scientists from the National Oceanography Centre and Clive Wilkinson, have collaborated on an article for AWE International titled "New Insights from Old Ship Data". The article describes, in a non-specialist manner, the work that is being done in GloSAT to extend the global marine record of air temperature.

Some of the GloSAT team attended COP26 in Glasgow this month. Tom Lloyd Webb, a postdoctoral researcher at University of York, has written a short report about the experience.

This month I attended UN COP26 in Glasgow as a country independent scientific observer to the negotiations, part of the cryosphere delegation with the International Cryosphere Climate Initiative (ICCI).

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Weather Rescue at Sea, a Zooniverse based citizen science project,developed by Prof Ed Hawkins and Dr Praveen Teleti at University of Reading, to digitise weather observations taken across the oceans in the 1860s is now live.

This new GloSAT temperature record will give a longer and more consistent picture of global surface air temperature change, and…

An opportunity to join the GloSAT project as a research fellow in natural language processing and information extraction is now available at the University of Southampton.

The position is fixed term until 30th Sept 2022 and closing date for applications is 3rd October 2020.

More information on the position including how to apply can be found here.

Do you think a Captain making entries in his ship logbook in the 19th century could possibly have imagined that 150 years in the future, scientists would be using that data to reconstruct climate records?

That’s exactly what’s happening as part of the GloSAT project. Marine air and sea temperatures recorded in ships’ logbooks as well as other observations are being digitised and used to evaluate the temperatures produced by climate models.…

Like many people during the current coronavirus situation, the majority of the GloSAT team are working from home and getting used to a different way of working. Although progress can be a little slower and problems may take slightly longer to resolve, the team have adjusted to the circumstances and are busy ensuring the project progresses.

Recruitment of people to some of the GloSAT positions has been delayed due to current…

The GloSAT project got fully underway with our kick off meeting in February. Hosted by the Department of Meteorology at the University of Reading, this was the first opportunity for everyone to get together, even though work on the project had already started back in the autumn.

Members of the ACRE project were able to join us for the first afternoon, so the meeting started with…