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Long-Term Climate Monitoring by the Global Climate Observing System

International Meeting of Experts, Asheville, North Carolina, USA

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  • © 1996

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Editors:
  1. Thomas R. Karl

    1. U.S. Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Climatic Data Center, Asheville, USA

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Table of contents (24 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-v
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  2. Editorials

    1. The Global Climate Observing System (GCOS)

      • Thomas Spence, John Townshend
      Pages 1-4

    2. Long-Term Climate Monitoring by the Global Climate Observing System (GCOS)

      • Thomas Karl, Francis Bretherton, William Easterling, Chris Miller, Kevin Trenberth
      Pages 5-17

    3. Long-Term Climate Monitoring by the Global Climate Observing System

      • Christopher Miller, Francis Bretherton
      Pages 19-32

    4. Long-Term Climate Monitoring by the Global Climate Observing System

      • Kevin E. Trenberth
      Pages 33-50

    5. Long-Term Climate Monitoring by the Global Climate Observing System (GCOS)

      • William E. Easterling
      Pages 51-54

  3. General Aspects of Climate Observing

    1. Critical Issues for Long-Term Climate Monitoring

      • Thomas R. Karl, Vernon E. Derr, David R. Easterling, Chris K. Folland, David J. Hofmann, Sydney Levitus et al.
      Pages 55-91

    2. Toward a Scientific Centered Climate Monitoring System

      • J. D. Mahlman
      Pages 93-100

    3. Long-Term Climate Monitoring and Extreme Events

      • Neville Nicholls
      Pages 101-115

    4. Low-Cost Long-Term Monitoring of Global Climate Forcings and Feedbacks

      • J. Hansen, W. Rossow, B. Carlson, A. Lacis, L. Travis, A. Del Genio et al.
      Pages 117-141

    5. Regional Climate Changes as Simulated in Time-Slice Experiments

      • U. Cubasch, J. Waszkewitz, G. Hegerl, J. Perlwitz
      Pages 143-174

  4. Specific Aspects of Climate Observing

    1. Monitoring Changes of Clouds

      • William B. Rossow, Brian Cairns
      Pages 175-217

    2. On Detecting Long-Term Changes in Atmospheric Moisture

      • William P. Elliott
      Pages 219-237

    3. Long-Term Observations for Monitoring of the Cryosphere

      • John E. Walsh
      Pages 239-264

    4. Satellite Monitoring of Global Land Cover Changes and their Impact on Climate

      • Ramakrishna R. Nemani, Steven W. Running
      Pages 265-283

    5. Long-Term Observations of Land Surface Characteristics

      • Chester F. Ropelewski
      Pages 285-295

    6. Atmospheric Circulation Climate Changes

      • Kevin E. Trenberth
      Pages 297-323

    7. Temperature above the Surface Layer

      • John R. Christy
      Pages 325-344

    8. An Ocean Observing System for Climate

      • Neville R. Smith, George T. Needler, The Ocean Observing System Development Panel
      Pages 345-364

    9. Observational Evidence of Interannual to Decadal-Scale Variability of the Subsurface Temperature-Salinity Structure of the World Ocean

      • Sydney Levitus, John Antonov
      Pages 365-384
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About this book

Is the climate warming? Is the hydrological cycle intensifying? Is the climate becoming more variable or extreme? Is the chemical composition of the atmosphere changing? Is the solar irradiance constant? Answers to these questions are fundamental to understanding, predicting, and assessing climate on time scales ranging from weeks to a century. Atmospheric, oceanic, and environmental scientists have primarily relied on an ad-hoc collection of disparate environmental observational and data management systems to address these problems. But these systems were not designed to measure climate variations and, as a result, changes and variations of the earth system during the instrumental climate record is far from unequivocal. This book develops a framework from which a Global Climate Observing System, currently being discussed in international forums, can be implemented to monitor changes and variations of climate.
Audience: Administrators, policy makers, professionals, graduate students, and others interested in learning how we can ensure a long-term climate record for application to national economic development and understanding ecosystem dynamics.

Editors and Affiliations

  • U.S. Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Climatic Data Center, Asheville, USA

    Thomas R. Karl

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Long-Term Climate Monitoring by the Global Climate Observing System

  • Book Subtitle: International Meeting of Experts, Asheville, North Carolina, USA

  • Editors: Thomas R. Karl

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0323-7

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1996

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-3856-7Due: 31 December 1995

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-4143-0Published: 05 November 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-011-0323-7Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: V, 518

  • Topics: Atmospheric Sciences

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