@article{Samuelsen_Aspaas_2020, title={Meteorology as Citizen Science}, url={https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/OSTalk/article/view/5621}, DOI={10.7557/19.5621}, abstractNote={<p>Eirik Samuelsen, senior meteorologist at the Norwegian Meteorological Institute (Met) and UiT The Arctic University of Norway, discusses the importance of citizen science to current meteorology in Norway. Amateurs contribute to the improvement of weather forecasts in various ways, from anecdotic but valuable feedback on errors in the forecast to a large network of private weather stations providing precious data for the free-to-use weather service <a href="https://www.yr.no/">www.yr.no</a>. Besides yr.no as such, which is maintained by the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK), there is mention of <a href="https://www.facebook.com/EiriksVaerblogg">Eiriks værblogg</a> (Eirik's weather blog) on Facebook, the network of <a href="https://weathermap.netatmo.com/">Netatmo Weather Stations</a>, the open database of meteorological models and weather data <a href="https://thredds.met.no/">thredds.met.no</a>, and the project <a href="https://smartsenja.no/en/">Smart Senja</a>.</p> <p>First published online September 23, 2020.</p>}, number={35}, journal={Open Science Talk}, author={Samuelsen, Eirik and Aspaas, Per Pippin}, year={2020}, month={Sep.} }