Long-Term Climate Monitoring by the Global Climate Observing System - International Meeting of Experts, Asheville, North Carolina, U.S.A., January 9-11, 1995 (Hardcover, Reprinted from Climatic Change ed.)

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 study develops a framework from which a Global Climate Observing System (GCOS), currently being discussed in international forums, can be implemented to monitor changes and variations of climate.

General

Imprint:	Kluwer Academic Publishers
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	December 1995
First published:	December 1995
Editors:	Thomas R. Karl
Dimensions:	230mm (L)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	400
Edition:	Reprinted from Climatic Change ed.
ISBN-13:	978-0-7923-3856-7
Categories:	Books > Earth & environment > Earth sciences > Meteorology > General
LSN:	0-7923-3856-1
Barcode:	9780792338567

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