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Making ccc-gistemp more user-friendly
This guest post is written by Filipe Fernandes, one of our Google Summer of Code students, who is working on our ccc-gistemp project. His previous post introduced his project. Hello, my name is Filipe Fernandes and I’m a Google Summer … Continue reading
First code for Common Climate Project
This guest post is written by Hannah Aizenman, one of our Google Summer of Code students, who is working on a web-based visualisation tool for reconstructions of late Holocene temperatures, for the Common Climate Project (CCP). Since my last blog … Continue reading
Science as a Public Enterprise
The Royal Society is conducting a policy study entitled ‘Science as a Public Enterprise’, focused on public engagement with science. This goes far beyond the traditional notions of ‘engagement’, in which the high priesthood of science may offer occasional public … Continue reading
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Welcome Daniel Rothenberg
This guest post is written by Daniel Rothenberg, one of our Google Summer of Code students. As a meteorologist and student of climate science, I’m fascinated by the atmosphere and the weather it produces. Throughout my studies, I’ve learned to … Continue reading
Welcome Hannah Aizenman
This guest post is written by Hannah Aizenman, one of our Google Summer of Code students. If you’ve been interested in climate for a while (or longer than 15 minutes) you’ve probably heard of the hockey-stick, or the East Anglia … Continue reading
Welcome Filipe Fernandes
This guest post is written by Filipe Fernandes, one of our Google Summer of Code students. My name is Filipe Fernandes. I am a PhD candidate at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth School for Marine Science and Technology, or SMAST. … Continue reading
Google Summer of Code projects
Today Google announced the final selection of successful proposals for Google Summer of Code. The Climate Code Foundation is very grateful to Google for sponsoring three of our projects: Hannah Aizenman, who will start development on the new ‘Open Climate … Continue reading
Reproducibility in Climate Science
The idea of ‘reproducibility’ is fundamental to scientific culture. Scientists don’t merely develop theories, construct models, form hypotheses, perform experiments, collect data, and use it to test their theories. They describe their theories, models, hypotheses, experiments, and data, in published … Continue reading
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Accepted for Google Summer of Code
We are proud to announce that we have been accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code. Since we announced our application, we have been contacted by more than a dozen students from all over the world, keen … Continue reading
Why publish code: a case study
Scientists often ask why they should publish their data-processing codes. “After all,” they say, “the paper describes the algorithm.” There are many good reasons to publish science source code, including: The paper usually does not include a full description of … Continue reading
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