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From Franklin’s Gulf Stream chart to Luke Howard’s cloud taxonomy and the first telegraph-era weather maps, shared vocabularies turned scattered local observations into a connected global enterprise. This session explores how communication, coding, and trust transformed the atmosphere into humanity’s first international data network — and how those lessons still shape open science today.
From Franklin’s Gulf Stream chart to Luke Howard’s cloud taxonomy and the first telegraph-era weather maps, shared vocabularies turned scattered local observations into a connected global enterprise. This session explores how communication, coding, and trust transformed the atmosphere into humanity’s first international data network — and how those lessons still shape open science today.
