What do we know about the weather on a particular day in the late 16th century? Not much - not even from our #ROPEWALK logbooks.

But there is an exception, the defeat of the Spanish Armada on 8 August 1588. With a different circulation pattern, I would probably write this text in Spanish.

Great #EGU23 session (both talks and posters!) on "Climate of the last two millennia" with many interesting discussions. I gave an update on our
@Rigsarkivet - @dmidk project #ROPEWALK. The logbooks of all Danish ships involved in the Battle of Køge Bay 1677 will be digitised.

Dette er jobbet, du vil have! #DMI og #Rigsarkivet arbejder sammen i projektet #ROPEWALK, hvis formål er at digitalisere alle skibsjournaler og logbøger i arkivet - kun hvis vi kender fortidens vejr, kan vi sige noget om fremtidens klima! Logbøgerne skal transskriberes med hjælp af #machinelearning, og vi søger en dygtig og idérig #datascientist til projektet.

Finally! These logbooks from the Royal Greenlandic Trading Company (KGH) are the first to be scanned in the #ROPEWALK project. Adam Jon Kronegh and I estimate this to be roughly 1% of all the documents to be digitized.

KGH had a monopoly on all trade with #Greenland from 1774 to 1950. #Rigsarkivet #DanishMeteorologicalInstitute

Once they have been scanned, the logbooks return to the National Archive and will not be touched for the remainder of the project.

Finally! These logbooks from the Royal Greenlandic Trading Company (KGH) are the first to be scanned in #ROPEWALK. @adamjonkronegh@twitter.com and I estimate this at ~1% of all documents to be digitized. KGH had a monopoly on all trade with Greenland from 1774 to 1950. @Rigsarkivet@twitter.com @dmidk@twitter.com

#Introduction

I am rather new here...

Working as a climate researcher at #DMI. Coordinating scientist of the #PolarPortal.
Working with a focus on climate change in the #Arctic and #Africa.
I am coordinating #ROPEWALK, a project aiming to digitize all logbooks (more than 750 shelf metres) in the National Archive of Denmark.
I have dual citizenship 🇩🇰 and 🇩🇪.

#Climate #ClimateChange #Greenland #IceSheets #PolarPortal #ROPEWALK #Arctic #Permafrost #Africa #Weather #Cycling #Photography #Science