The next stages of CLIWOC
The CLIWOC project concluded in 2003. This was not however, the end of CLIWOC as an active project. The information collated represented over 250,000 days of detailed observations, extending knowledge of ocean weather back a further 100 years to 1750.
Work continued building on the huge volume of data accumulated, and on the findings and conclusions of the three years of the project. Most importantly, the database of logbook climatic information became available.
A dictionary of logbook weather terms was also completed. Using this dictionary, CLIWOC converted old and seemingly curious descriptions into terms that made scientific sense. The mathematical models used to reconstruct past climates also became available.
CLIWOC also established links with the American National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). These organisations manage the well-established ICOADS (International Comprehensive Ocean-Atmosphere Data Set) archive of oceanic climate information, which has plentiful instrumental data from the mid-19th century onwards.