The Weather Observations Website (WOW) is a cloud-based platform used by the citizen science community to upload and share personal weather observations with anyone around the globe. Currently there are approximately 30,000 users of WOW and more than 1 million observations submitted to WOW each day. Since its release in 2011, WOW has undergone significant technological developments to enhance the sharing of crowdsourced data making it hugely successful. As a result, WOW has served as a tool for creating partnerships between the Met Office and various other National Meteorological Services, who recognise the value of the system and its ability to increase data coverage across areas that are sparse in data. WOW will be awarded the European Meteorological Society (EMS) Technology Achievement Award to formally acknowledge its value at the EMS Annual Meeting in Bonn, Germany.
How to cite: Mylne, K., Gilbert, S., Male, H., Pavelin, E., Sugier, J., De Baar, J., Reyniers, M., Runbäck, J., Walker, J., Alder, K., and Gooding, D.: The Weather Observations Website, EMS Annual Meeting 2022, Bonn, Germany, 5–9 Sep 2022, EMS2022-725, https://doi.org/10.5194/ems2022-725, 2022.
