Towards an enhanced climate system monitoring: Challenges and perspectives

Climate Research

Volumn 47, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 21-28

  Peterson, Thomas C ^a   Baddour, Omar ^b  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b WORLD METEOROLOGICAL ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Climate; Climate monitoring; Monitoring needs

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE; CLIMATE DATA; CLIMATE DATA RECORDS; CLIMATE INFORMATION; CLIMATE MONITORING; CLIMATE SIGNALS; CLIMATE SYSTEM; CLIMATE VARIABLES; CROSS-BORDER; GLOBAL CLIMATE SYSTEM; INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGE; NEW SATELLITES;

METADATA; MONITORING;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE VARIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; SATELLITE DATA; TRACKING;

EID: 79957568253     PISSN: 0936577X     EISSN: 16161572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/cr00951     Document Type: Article

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