Adequacy of Climate Observing Systems
1st Edition
Published on 1. March 1999
66 pages
978-0-309-57074-9 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Adequacy of Climate Observing Systems
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03/1999
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Content
- 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
