A unique volunteer effort for digitizing WWII-era U.S. naval logbooks has been aiding in filling up a crucial gap in the climate record.
To understand in detail how humans have had a role in altering the climate, researchers first must determine what the climate was like earlier, and vessel logbooks are also key to this work, offering a detailed historical account of weather on high seas. There are, however, considerable gaps in the weather record during WWII, when the hostilities reportedly...