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PAPERBACK list:$26.00 Web:$23.40 add to cart Rights & Permissions Free PDF Access Free Resources Sign in to download PDF book and chapters PDF EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Display this book on your site! Related Titles Earth Science and Applications from Space: National Imperatives for the Next Decade and Beyond Natural Climate Variability on Decade-to-Century Time Scales Other Related Titles Adequacy of Climate Observing Systems (1999) Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (BASC) Web Search Builder Use this book's key terms to search within this book, across our collection, or across the Web. Skim This Chapter Skim this chapter and use this chapter's key terms to search within this book. Reference Finder Paste in your own text to find books that relate to your topic. Page 44   E-mail  Facebook  Digg  Stumble  Twitter More The following HTML text is provided to enhance online readability. Many aspects of typography translate only awkwardly to HTML. Please use the page image as the authoritative form to ensure accuracy. Appendix C Statement of Task This study will examine the current and near-term prospective status of operational and research observing networks and related data systems that are essential to documenting climate variability and change. The proposed study will: 1)   identify the data from observing systems that are critical for detecting and documenting secular trends and variability of relevant climate variables; 2)   characterize the current status of these systems in terms of capacity to produce data products with sufficient spatial and temporal resolution, and adequate accuracy and precision, to document secular trends and analyze human attribution; 3)   describe the historic trend in the status of each system over the past decade, and contemplated events that may change that trend over the near-term future, and analyze the implications of such trends for documenting climate change and attributing causation; 4)   identify changes in the end-to-end observing system structure including operations, data processing, and data access that could affect the systems capability for documenting climate variability and secular trends, or analyzing human attribution; and 5)   analyze opportunities to manage and apply resources so as to avoid adverse effects on the future scientific value of the climate database. Page 44 Front Matter (R1-R14) Executive Summary (1-6) 1 Questions and Answers (7-28) 2 Findings and Recommendations (29-32) 3 Concluding Remarks (33-35) References (36-38) Appendix A Message from the 1997 Conference on the WCRP (39-41) Appendix B Framework Convention on Climate Change (42-43) Appendix C Statement of Task (44-44) Appendix D Letter to Thomas Karl (45-47) Appendix E Decision 14/CP.4 (48-50) Appendix F Acronyms (51-51)

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--> Appendix C Statement of Task This study will examine the current and near-term prospective status of operational and research observing networks and related data systems that are essential to documenting climate variability and change. The proposed study will: 1)   identify the data from observing systems that are critical for detecting and documenting secular trends and variability of relevant climate variables; 2)   characterize the current status of these systems in terms of capacity to produce data products with sufficient spatial and temporal resolution, and adequate accuracy and precision, to document secular trends and analyze human attribution; 3)   describe the historic trend in the status of each system over the past decade, and contemplated events that may change that trend over the near-term future, and analyze the implications of such trends for documenting climate change and attributing causation; 4)   identify changes in the end-to-end observing system structure including operations, data processing, and data access that could affect the systems capability for documenting climate variability and secular trends, or analyzing human attribution; and 5)   analyze opportunities to manage and apply resources so as to avoid adverse effects on the future scientific value of the climate database.

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