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Adequacy of climate observing systems / Panel on Climate Observing Systems Status, Climate Research Committee, Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate, Commission on Geosciences, Environment, and Resources.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Compass series (Washington, D.C.)
- The compass series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Meteorology--Observations.
- Meteorology.
- Climatic changes--Research--United States.
- Climatic changes.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (65 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Climate observing systems
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, 1999.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The 1997 Conference on the World Climate Research Programme to the Third Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change concluded that the global capacity to observe the Earth's climate system is inadequate and is deteriorating worldwide. As a result, the chair of the subcommittee of the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) requested a National Research Council study to assess the current status of the climate observing capabilities of the United States. This report focuses on existing observing systems for detection and attribution of climate change, with special emphasis on those systems with long time series.
- Contents:
- Adequacy of Climate Observing Systems
- Copyright
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- Executive Summary
- 1 Questions and Answers
- CLIMATE MONITORING PRINCIPLES
- 2 Findings and Recommendations
- 3 Concluding Remarks
- References
- Appendixes
- Appendis A Message from the 1997 Conference on the World Climate Research Programme to the Third Conference of the Parties…
- Appendix B Relevant Sections from the Framework Convention on Climate Change
- Article 2 Objective
- Article 4 Commitments
- Article 5 Research and Systematic Observation
- Appendix C Statement of Task
- Appendix D U.S. Global Change Research Program
- Appendix E Decision 14/CP.4
- Research and systematic observation
- Appendix F Acronyms.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliography (p. 36-38).
- ISBN:
- 9786610186082
- 9780309184557
- 030918455X
- 9781280186080
- 1280186089
- 9780309570749
- 0309570743
- 9780585057798
- 0585057796
- OCLC:
- 42855239
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