Monsoon Voyages

Author: Zoe Cheang

  • The Legacy of HMS Eclipse

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    Hello everyone! We will be spotlighting HMS Eclipse, one of the few ships that you may have been transcribing from on our citizen-science project called Monsoon Voyages. HMS: What does it stand for? Before we jump straight into the history, you might have noticed the ship prefix “HMS”, followed by a name while transcribing the…

  • The El Nino Story

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    The Beginning of the Endeavour In the early 1891, a traveler named S.M. Scott was staying near Talara in northwestern Peru when clouds started building on the horizon. He described the extraordinary season of torrential rains and a transformed landscape as “a low-hanging, densely clouded sky, intense heat … The rain fell in inconceivable torrents…

  • Understanding Data: A Window into History and Climate

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    Let us go back by a century, and imagine ourselves to be one of the crew onboard a ship sailing vast global seas. Surrounded by the blue ocean and open sky, part of your daily routine would be to jot down weather observations in a logbook – a notebook filled with careful notes about what…