Crowdsourcing for climate and atmospheric sciences: Current status and future potential

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 35, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 3185-3203

  Muller, C L ^a   Chapman, L ^a   Johnston, S ^b   Kidd, C ^c,d   Illingworth, S ^e   Foody, G ^f   Overeem, A ^g,h   Leigh, R R ⁱ  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b White Bear Yard   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^d NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^e MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^g WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^h ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amateur; Applications; Big data; Citizen science; Internet of things; Sensors

Indexed keywords

APPLICATIONS; ASTROPHYSICS; BIG DATA; INTERNET OF THINGS; SENSORS; SMARTPHONES;

AMATEUR; ATMOSPHERIC DATA; ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCE; CITIZEN SCIENCE; CONTROL PROCEDURES; NUMBER OF PEOPLES; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL; WEB 2.0 TECHNOLOGIES;

CROWDSOURCING;

CLIMATE MODELING; DATABASE; INSTRUMENTATION; INTERNET; REAL TIME; SENSOR; TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION;

EID: 84940889436     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.4210     Document Type: Review

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