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Ensuring the Climate Record from the NPP and NPOESS Meteorological Satellites (2000) / Chapter Skim
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1 Introduction
Pages 8-9

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... NPOESS is being developed with the goal of meeting the converged operational data needs of NOAA and DOD, as well as some of the data needs of NASA's Earth observation programs. In a joint mission to transition appropriate research satellite measurements into the operational domain, NASA and the NPOESS Integrated Program Office are developing the NPOESS Preparatory Project (NPP)
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... In addition, there are no firm plans to archive sensor design information and the calibration and ancillary data necessary to develop what the committee terms "climate data records" (CDRs)
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