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Long-term climate monitoring by the Global Climate Observing System / edited Thomas R. Karl.

Contributor(s): Dordrecht ; Kluwer Academic, c1996Boston : Kluwer Academic, c1996Description: iv, 648 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0792338561 (alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 551.6/072 20
LOC classification:
  • QC875.2.G555 L66 1996
Contents:
The Global Climate Observing System (GCOS) / Thomas Spence, John Townshend -- Long-Term Climate Monitoring by the Global Climate Observing System (GCOS) / Thomas Karl, Francis Bretherton, William Easterling, Chris Miller, Kevin Trenberth -- Long-Term Climate Monitoring by the Global Climate Observing System / Christopher Miller, Francis Bretherton -- Long-Term Climate Monitoring by the Global Climate Observing System / Kevin E. Trenberth -- Long-Term Climate Monitoring by the Global Climate Observing System (GCOS) / William E. Easterling -- Critical Issues for Long-Term Climate Monitoring / Thomas R. Karl, Vernon E. Derr, David R. Easterling, Chris K. Folland, David J. Hofmann, Sydney Levitus et al. -- Toward a Scientific Centered Climate Monitoring System / J. D. Mahlman -- Long-Term Climate Monitoring and Extreme Events / Neville Nicholls -- Low-Cost Long-Term Monitoring of Global Climate Forcings and Feedbacks / J. Hansen, W. Rossow, B. Carlson, A. Lacis, L. Travis, A. Del Genio et al. -- Regional Climate Changes as Simulated in Time-Slice Experiments / U. Cubasch, J. Waszkewitz, G. Hegerl, J. Perlwitz -- Monitoring Changes of Clouds / William B. Rossow, Brian Cairns -- On Detecting Long-Term Changes in Atmospheric Moisture / William P. Elliott -- Long-Term Observations for Monitoring of the Cryosphere / John E. Walsh -- Satellite Monitoring of Global Land Cover Changes and their Impact on Climate / Ramakrishna R. Nemani, Steven W. Running -- Long-Term Observations of Land Surface Characteristics / Chester F. Ropelewski -- Atmospheric Circulation Climate Changes / Kevin E. Trenberth -- Temperature above the Surface Layer / John R. Christy -- An Ocean Observing System for Climate / Neville R. Smith, George T. Needler, The Ocean Observing System Development Panel -- Observational Evidence of Interannual to Decadal-Scale Variability of the Subsurface Temperature-Salinity Structure of the World Ocean / Sydney Levitus, John Antonov -- Monitoring Sea Level Changes / Vivien Gornitz -- Land Surface Temperatures : Is the Network Good Enough? / P. D. Jones -- Marine Surface Temperature: Observed Variations and Data Requirements / D. E. Parker, C. K. Folland, M. Jackson -- Documenting and Detecting Long-Term Precipitation Trends: Where we are and What should be Done / Pavel Ya. Groisman, David R. Legates -- Indexes of Leading Climate Indicators for Impact Assessment / W. E. Easterling, R. W. Kates.
Summary: 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 book develops a framework from which a Global Climate Observing System, currently being discussed in international forums, can be implemented to monitor changes and variations of climate.
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Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
BOOK BOOK NCAR Library Mesa Lab QC875.2 .G555 L66 1996 1 Available 50583010170250
BOOK BOOK NCAR Library Foothills Lab QC875.2 .G555 L66 1996 2 Available 50583010331878
Total holds: 0

"Reprinted from Climatic Change, volume 31, nos. 2-4, 1995."

Includes bibliographical references.

The Global Climate Observing System (GCOS) / Thomas Spence, John Townshend -- Long-Term Climate Monitoring by the Global Climate Observing System (GCOS) / Thomas Karl, Francis Bretherton, William Easterling, Chris Miller, Kevin Trenberth -- Long-Term Climate Monitoring by the Global Climate Observing System / Christopher Miller, Francis Bretherton -- Long-Term Climate Monitoring by the Global Climate Observing System / Kevin E. Trenberth -- Long-Term Climate Monitoring by the Global Climate Observing System (GCOS) / William E. Easterling -- Critical Issues for Long-Term Climate Monitoring / Thomas R. Karl, Vernon E. Derr, David R. Easterling, Chris K. Folland, David J. Hofmann, Sydney Levitus et al. -- Toward a Scientific Centered Climate Monitoring System / J. D. Mahlman -- Long-Term Climate Monitoring and Extreme Events / Neville Nicholls -- Low-Cost Long-Term Monitoring of Global Climate Forcings and Feedbacks / J. Hansen, W. Rossow, B. Carlson, A. Lacis, L. Travis, A. Del Genio et al. -- Regional Climate Changes as Simulated in Time-Slice Experiments / U. Cubasch, J. Waszkewitz, G. Hegerl, J. Perlwitz -- Monitoring Changes of Clouds / William B. Rossow, Brian Cairns -- On Detecting Long-Term Changes in Atmospheric Moisture / William P. Elliott -- Long-Term Observations for Monitoring of the Cryosphere / John E. Walsh -- Satellite Monitoring of Global Land Cover Changes and their Impact on Climate / Ramakrishna R. Nemani, Steven W. Running -- Long-Term Observations of Land Surface Characteristics / Chester F. Ropelewski -- Atmospheric Circulation Climate Changes / Kevin E. Trenberth -- Temperature above the Surface Layer / John R. Christy -- An Ocean Observing System for Climate / Neville R. Smith, George T. Needler, The Ocean Observing System Development Panel -- Observational Evidence of Interannual to Decadal-Scale Variability of the Subsurface Temperature-Salinity Structure of the World Ocean / Sydney Levitus, John Antonov -- Monitoring Sea Level Changes / Vivien Gornitz -- Land Surface Temperatures : Is the Network Good Enough? / P. D. Jones -- Marine Surface Temperature: Observed Variations and Data Requirements / D. E. Parker, C. K. Folland, M. Jackson -- Documenting and Detecting Long-Term Precipitation Trends: Where we are and What should be Done / Pavel Ya. Groisman, David R. Legates -- Indexes of Leading Climate Indicators for Impact Assessment / W. E. Easterling, R. W. Kates.

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

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