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C Cooperative Observer Systems in Other Countries
Pages 59-59

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... The Hydrology Section of the World Meteorological Organization maintains information about stations that measure precipitation in every country. At the 1997 Conference on the World Climate Research Programme in Geneva, Switzerland, members of the international climate research and policy communities agreed that the decline in conventional observation networks measuring key components of the climate system in some regions is a serious threat to climate research and to the detection and attribution of the causes of climate change.
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