On Friday 18th March, we were pleased to welcome Professor Rob Allan from ACRE, to present his webinar entitled ‘CDE Webinar – Prof. Rob Allan: ACRE and International Global Weather Data Rescue’. This talk commenced our ‘Data digitisation, rescue, and re-purposing’ webinar series.
During the 1990s, Rob worked at the then CSIRO Division for Atmospheric Research in Melbourne, Australia. In mid-2000, he moved to the Hadley Centre in the UK Met Office where he led the development of both the Hadley Centre monthly global mean sea level pressure (MSLP) data set (HadSLP2), and a daily MSLP product over the North Atlantic- European region back to 1850.
In mid-2007, he created the International Atmospheric Circulation Reconstructions over the Earth (ACRE) Initiative (http://www.met-acre.net/), and has coordinated all of its activities since. This involves overseeing, undertaking, and facilitating historical global surface terrestrial and marine instrumental weather data recovery, imaging, digitisation, and curation, plus ensuring that these data feed into the international repositories responsible for such material, and seeing that they provided the best quality and quantity of weather observations for assimilation into all historical and contemporary global reanalyses or reconstructions of 4D weather (e.g., 20CR).
During the 1990s, Rob worked at the then CSIRO Division for Atmospheric Research in Melbourne, Australia. In mid-2000, he moved to the Hadley Centre in the UK Met Office where he led the development of both the Hadley Centre monthly global mean sea level pressure (MSLP) data set (HadSLP2), and a daily MSLP product over the North Atlantic- European region back to 1850.
In mid-2007, he created the International Atmospheric Circulation Reconstructions over the Earth (ACRE) Initiative (http://www.met-acre.net), and has coordinated all of its activities since. This involves overseeing, undertaking, and facilitating historical global surface terrestrial and marine instrumental weather data recovery, imaging, digitisation, and curation, plus ensuring that these data feed into the international repositories responsible for such material, and seeing that they provided the best quality and quantity of weather observations for assimilation into all historical and contemporary global reanalyses or reconstructions of 4D weather (e.g., 20CR).
In this webinar, Rob will discuss the full nature of ACRE and its role as the prime driving force behind ongoing rescue of global historical surface instrumental weather observations and their enhancement of global historical reanalyses.
Further information and details, this and the wider webinar series is online at https://digitalenvironment.org/cde-webinar-series/#allan.