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Friday, July 10, 2015 - 09:30
The Weather Channel recently spoke to Prof Peter Thorne, one of the collaborators on the Cyclone Centre project, about people power in tropical cyclone research.
"I'm just blown away by the quality of the classifications," said Dr. Peter Thorne, project collaborator from Maynooth University in Ireland.
"Volunteers initially feel like they must be doing it wrong and therefore are, wrongly, put off. The results show that isn't the case at all.”
"If everyone watching The Weather Channel or visiting weather.com over a 24-hour period came over and did five storms -- 100 images -- we'd have a global reanalysis since the start of regular satellite measurements done for all basins and all storms in less than 24 hours," said Thorne.