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DEVELOPMENT OF MONITORING AND EARLY DETECTION STRATEGIES
DEVELOPMENT OF MONITORING AND EARLY DETECTION STRATEGIES
Pages 61-64
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2. The CO2-induced warming may be masked by climate changes caused by other factors such as the secular variations of atmospheric aerosols and solar irradiance.
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On the basis of these measurements, one should be able to distinguish the climate changes attributable to changes in these factors and thereby facilitate the detection of a CO2induced climate signal. A comprehensive set of variables should be monitored in order to discriminate CO2-induced changes from changes in climate caused by other factors.
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MONITORING OCEAN CLIMATE RESPONSE Operational monitoring of the ocean's response to climate change requires observation of sea-surface temperature, water-mass parameters, and sea-ice extent. The problem with sea-surface temperature measurements is their large fluctuations due to mesoscale eddies and observational errors.
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Estimates based on a series of four cruises in the eastern North Atlantic subtropical gyre show that potential temperature can be spatially determined in the presence of eddies to an error less than 0.02°C for any cruise and a scatter less than 0.1°C for four cruises extending over 2 years. The difficulty in interpreting any water-mass indicators of climatic variability is that poorly understood salinity changes associated with evaporation and precipitation may accompany these changes.
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