Dr Linda Davis (OPAL Director) at the launch event
Climate survey: Blow a bubble and spot a contrail. Open Air Laboratories launches national Climate Survey in Prince's Gardens - News Thursday 3 March 2011 - By Simon Levey and Sarah Baldwin Meteorologists and other scientists are asking everyone in England to take part in a new survey exploring how we influence the climate and how the climate affects us. Open Air Laboratories (OPAL) is launching its Climate Survey today, with a reception at Imperial College London's South Kensington Campus. Led by the Met Office in collaboration with Imperial and other partners, this community science project is collecting data that will play an important role in meteorological research. Dr Geoff Jenkins of the Royal Meteorological Society explained: "We're asking people to go outside and observe and measure the weather. What they see and record will be useful in checking the models we use for forecasting weather and predicting climate." Participants do not need any hi-tech equipment, just to download a free survey pack from the OPAL website. They can then start looking for aeroplane contrails in the sky, watching cloud movement to record wind direction at cloud level, blowing bubbles to measure wind direction and speed at street level and noting down the clothes they wear to get a better understanding of thermal comfort.
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