Eyes on Cyclone Center
With 15,000+ citizen scientists contributing to CycloneCenter.org, we have more than thirty thousand eyes searching through satellite data.
So far, everyone has provided input on almost 50,000 images. As we begin to sift through all the responses, one task is to determine the storm type (eye, shear, embedded center or curved band) of each image from all the responses.
The eye images seem to make up about 8% of our images so far. The image below is a collection of some of the images identified as eye scenes by the citizen scientists. This is only a small portion of what we have, but it shows great progress.
Images identified as Eye scenes by citizen scientists.
This contains only 391 of the ~4500 eye images identified. So, 30,000 human eyes have found 4500 storm eyes.
CycloneCenter Participation for April 2014
This month, we are naming the monthly award for the top classifier as the “Baja award” in honor of our consistent participant baha23 and retiring the name in recognition of the consistent contribution to the project from the monthly stat board (so that others can also be recognized for their effort). Likewise, the overall project activity list is now the “Bretarn board” in honor of our longtime contributor, bretarn (who also was our 300,000th classification).
Question of the Month: What is the best time to classify storms? Do you classify during your downtime? Answer in the comments below.
For March 2014, we had 7,964 classifications of 364 storms from 254 citizen scientists.
Top 10 most active citizen scientists for April 2014.
| Classifications | Scientist |
| 3386 | baha23 |
| 611 | peterthorne |
| 576 | bretarn |
| 483 | Atms345_kdg |
| 464 | skl6284 |
| 228 | tdw1203 |
| 180 | TheNerd |
| 141 | shocko61 |
| 131 | WIDEnet |
| 79 | andrewlania |
Baja Award: Most active citizen scientists each month.
| Month | Number | User |
| Sep 2012 | 658 | atomic7732 |
| Oct 2012 | 3667 | chrisotahal |
| Nov 2012 | 3276 | bretarn |
| Dec 2012 | 2747 | bretarn |
| Jan 2013 | 2555 | shocko61 |
| Feb 2013 | 1714 | shocko61 |
| Mar 2013 | 1998 | bretarn |
| Apr 2013 | 1474 | ATMS103LGB |
| May 2013 | 1451 | astroboyOW |
| Jun 2013 | 1084 | bretarn |
| Jul 2013 | 976 | Geeklette |
| Aug 2013 | 1051 | skl6284 |
| Sep 2013 | 431 | tdw1203 |
| Oct 2013 | 2733 | baha23 |
| Nov 2013 | 3737 | baha23 |
| Dec 2013 | 500 | Atms345_ssc |
| Jan 2014 | 3064 | baha23 |
| Feb 2014 | 3455 | baha23 |
| Mar 2014 | 4610 | baha23 |
| Apr 2014 | 611 | peterthorne |
The Bretarn Board: Most active citizen scientists overall.
| Classifications | Scientist |
| 22,582 | bretarn |
| 21,907 | baha23 |
| 10,690 | shocko61 |
| 5006 | astroboyOW |
| 4544 | peterthorne |
| 3988 | chrisotahal |
| 3471 | cch001 |
| 3172 | tpatch |
| 3030 | skl6284 |
| 2711 | velthove |
Postscript
Did you notice that peterthorne moved up a spot on the all time list. It turns out that work travel is a great time to classify storms. So why not use Airport wifi to classify storms while waiting in the airport??
Also, what do you think of the Baja award?
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