Climate data challenges in the 21st century

Science

Volumn 331, Issue 6018, 2011, Pages 700-702

  Overpeck, Jonathan T ^a   Meehl, Gerald A ^b   Bony, Sandrine ^c   Easterling, David R ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c LABORATOIRE DE MÉTÉOROLOGIE DYNAMIQUE   (France)

^d NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELING; DATA ASSIMILATION; DATA SET; PARADIGM SHIFT; SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; VULNERABILITY;

CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA EXTRACTION; FORECASTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIMULATION; THERMOMETER; WEATHER;

EID: 79951498486     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1197869     Document Type: Review

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23. The authors thank G. Strand [National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)] and S. Veasey (National Climatic Data Center) for their contributions. NOAA supported this work (J.T.O.) through its Regional Integrated Sciences and Assessments Program. Portions of this study were also supported (G.A.M.) by the Office of Science (B.E.R.), U.S. Department of Energy, Cooperative Agreement no. DE-FC02-97ER62402; and NSF. NCAR (G.A.M.) is sponsored by NSF