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| Titel |
ECOLES: a Citizen Observers network engaging communities to map climate change at the local level |
| VerfasserIn |
Peter Thejll, Nicholas Walker, Inge Sandholt, Ian Brown, Rune Solberg, Jason Suwala, Richard Kelly, Helge Tangen, Robin Berglund, Andy Dean, Rune Engset, Bjarne Siewertsen |
| Konferenz |
EGU General Assembly 2016
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Artikel
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| Sprache |
en
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| Digitales Dokument |
PDF |
| Erschienen |
In: GRA - Volume 18 (2016) |
| Datensatznummer |
250132495
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| Publikation (Nr.) |
 EGU/EGU2016-13007.pdf |
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| Zusammenfassung |
| Engaging people in environmental studies is an important way to bring
across awareness of expected future climate changes, and also a way to
measure environmental change in ways that are better or complementary
to remote sensing methods. With a hands-on approach, people are more
likely to embrace the idea that climate change is occurring, and with
modern technologies it is possible to collect quite stunning amounts of
relevant data.
We suggest several national activities tailored to conditions in each of
the participating countries and also to existing national CO-projects. The
project focuses on gathering data on biological changes, on weather, and
on snow-pack information in Nordic countries as well as Greenland and
Canada. Data will be gathered with existing equipment (mobile phones
and internet-connected weather stations) and the project provides
the means for collation of data into a database for dissemination and
quality control. Numerical data collected by small non-professional
weather stations or mobile phones with sensors are not directly useful
quantitatively for e.g. numerical weather prediction without validation of
data quality, but with validation there is a huge untapped potential due
to the number of observers. Students are a central part of the project,
which also seeks to engage people out and about in nature, and people
with their own weather stations or other environmental data-collection
activities, as well as passive data collection from mobile phone
data sensors in people’s bags and pockets. Appropriate software,
educational and training materials will be designed with end-users in
mind; school-age materials will be produced in the appropriate languages
(e.g. Kalaallisut for COs of school age in Greenland). |
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