The National Eclipse Weather Experiment: an assessment of citizen scientist weather observations.
The National Eclipse Weather Experiment: an assessment of citizen scientist weather observations.
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DOI：
10.1098/rsta.2015.0220
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发表时间：
2016-09-28
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通讯作者：
Harrison RG
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作者：
Barnard L;Portas AM;Gray SL;Harrison RG
国家日食天气实验（NEWEx）是一个公民科学项目，旨在评估2015年3月20日偏食对英国天气的影响。NEWEx有两个主要目标：在英国提供一个气象观测的空间网络，以帮助调查日食引起的天气变化，并发展一个全国性的公众参与活动，以公民科学家的参与为基础。总的来说，NEWEx收集了15606个来自英国309个地点的气温、云量、风速和风向的观测数据，时间跨度为日食期间的3小时。标题结果在接近真实的时间内处理，立即在网上发布，并在日食当天在英国全国新闻文章中进行了专题报道。在这里，我们描述了NEWEx的技术发展以及如何分析公民科学家提供的观测结果。通过比较结果的NEWEx分析与其他调查的结果相同的日食使用不同的观测网络，包括从阅读大学的大气观测站的测量，我们证明，NEWEx提供了一个公平的代表性的变化，在英国的气象条件在整个日食。尽管采用的方法很简单，但在日食期间观察到温度和风速的大幅下降。这篇文章是“2015年英国日食刺激的日食大气效应”主题问题的一部分。
The National Eclipse Weather Experiment (NEWEx) was a citizen science project designed to assess the effects of the 20 March 2015 partial solar eclipse on the weather over the United Kingdom (UK). NEWEx had two principal objectives: to provide a spatial network of meteorological observations across the UK to aid the investigation of eclipse-induced weather changes, and to develop a nationwide public engagement activity-based participation of citizen scientists. In total, NEWEx collected 15 606 observations of air temperature, cloudiness and wind speed and direction from 309 locations across the UK, over a 3 h window spanning the eclipse period. The headline results were processed in near real time, immediately published online, and featured in UK national press articles on the day of the eclipse. Here, we describe the technical development of NEWEx and how the observations provided by the citizen scientists were analysed. By comparing the results of the NEWEx analyses with results from other investigations of the same eclipse using different observational networks, including measurements from the University of Reading’s Atmospheric Observatory, we demonstrate that NEWEx provided a fair representation of the change in the UK meteorological conditions throughout the eclipse. Despite the simplicity of the approach adopted, robust reductions in both temperature and wind speed during the eclipse were observed. This article is part of the themed issue ‘Atmospheric effects of solar eclipses stimulated by the 2015 UK eclipse’.
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DOI：
10.1098/rsta.2015.0224
发表时间：
2016-09-28
期刊：
Philosophical transactions. Series A, Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences
影响因子：
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作者：
Gray SL;Harrison RG
通讯作者：
Harrison RG
影响因子：
8.9
作者：
Harrison, R. G.
通讯作者：
Harrison, R. G.
DOI：
10.1098/rspa.2002.1042
发表时间：
2003-02-08
影响因子：
3.5
作者：
Aplin, KL;Harrison, RG
通讯作者：
Harrison, RG
影响因子：
2.8
作者：
Cliver, E. W.;Ling, A. G.
通讯作者：
Ling, A. G.
影响因子：
2.7
作者：
MacDonald, PL;Gardner, RC
通讯作者：
Gardner, RC