Observation and integrated Earth-system science: A roadmap for 2016-2025

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 57, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 2037-2103

  Simmons, Adrian ^a   Fellous, Jean Louis ^b   Ramaswamy, Venkatachalam ^c   Trenberth, Kevin ^d   Asrar, Ghassem ^e   Balmaseda, Magdalena ^a   Burrows, John P ^f   Ciais, Philippe ^g   Drinkwater, Mark ^h   Friedlingstein, Pierre ⁱ   Gobron, Nadine ^j   Guilyardi, Eric ^k   Halpern, David ^l   Heimann, Martin ^m   Johannessen, Johnny ⁿ   Levelt, Pieternel F ^o   Lopez Baeza, Ernesto ^p   Penner, Joyce ^q   Scholes, Robert ^r   Shepherd, Ted ^s  

^a EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

^b Committee on Space Research ^*  (France)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^g LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^h EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^j JRC   (Japan)

^k UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

^l NASA HEADQUARTERS   (United States)

^m MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOGEOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

ⁿ Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Centre   (Norway)

^o DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^p UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^q UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^r UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^s UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

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Author keywords

Earth system science; Modelling; Observations

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; EARTH (PLANET); FORECASTING; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MODELS; SPACE RESEARCH;

EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GLOBAL OBSERVING SYSTEMS; INTERNATIONAL COORDINATION; MODEL PARAMETER ESTIMATION; OBSERVATIONS; PROCESS UNDERSTANDING; TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCES;

MONITORING;

EID: 84964047746     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: 18791948     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2016.03.008     Document Type: Review

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