EGU25-578, updated on 14 Jan 2026
https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu25-578
EGU General Assembly 2025
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“Old Texts, New Tech, Better Theory”: Applying Machine Learning to Textual Weather Data from Historical Ship Logbooks 
Livia Stein Freitas1,2, Theo Carr1,3, Tessa Giacoppo1,4, Timothy Walker1,5, and Caroline Ummenhofer1
Livia Stein Freitas et al.
  • 1Department of Physical Oceanography, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, USA
  • 2Department of Computer Science, Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA, USA
  • 3Massachusetts Institute of Technology–Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Joint Program in Oceanography/Applied Ocean Science and Engineering, Cambridge and Woods Hole, MA, USA
  • 4Department of Earth and Environmental Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, CA
  • 5Department of History, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, Dartmouth, MA, USA

How to cite: Stein Freitas, L., Carr, T., Giacoppo, T., Walker, T., and Ummenhofer, C.: “Old Texts, New Tech, Better Theory”: Applying Machine Learning to Textual Weather Data from Historical Ship Logbooks , EGU General Assembly 2025, Vienna, Austria, 27 Apr–2 May 2025, EGU25-578, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu25-578, 2025.

This abstract has been withdrawn on 22 Apr 2025.