Earth System Monitor: A Guide to NOAA's Data and Information Services

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NOAA Data and Information Management Program Office, 1995

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Page 3 - Use for publicity or advertising purposes of information from this publication concerning proprietary products or the tests of such products is not authorized.
Page 16 - Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), Campus Box 449, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO...
Page 10 - Organization (UNESCO), the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), and the International Council of Scientific Unions (ICSU...
Page 12 - ... acknowledged, the recommendations put forth through the experts meeting cannot be easily viewed in terms of priorities, but rather should be used in an opportunistic sense. All the recommendations are important. Despite these words there are two general concepts that stand out among all others. First, adequate long-term climate monitoring will continue to be critically dependent on developing a partnership among network operators, data managers, analysts, and modelers. Multi-purpose observing...
Page 16 - NGDC announces the availability of a new collection of digital elevation data on CD-ROM. The collection, called Terrainbase, includes improved 5-minute digital terrain data of land and ocean values for the entire world. Also included on the CD-ROM are 26 regional grids that provide land elevation and ocean depth values for various areas throughout the world.
Page 10 - ... past states of the climate. However, our present observing system and data management practices have failed to deliver the quality of data required to deduce unequivocal information about the rates and often even the sign of multi-decadal changes and variations. Answers to specific questions such as: Is the climate warming? Is the hydrologic cycle changing? Is the atmospheric/oceanic circulation changing? Is the climate becoming more variable or extreme? Is radiative forcing of the climate changing?...
Page 12 - Towards the Development of a Global Inventory of Black Carbon Emissions', Atmos. Environ., (in press). Price, C.: 1993, 'Global Surface Temperatures and the Atmospheric Electrical Circuit'. Geophys. Res. Lett. 20, 1363-1366. Quayle. RG, Easterling, DR, Karl.TR, and Hughes, PY: 1991, 'Effects of Recent Thermometer Changes in the Cooperative Station Network', Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc. 72, 1718-1723. Reynolds, RW: 1993, 'An Improved Real-Time Global Sea Surface Temperature Analysis', J.
Page 4 - The mission of the society is to increase the knowledge and understanding of Florida's marine resources through education, public awareness, and the support of scientific research.
Page 16 - Histograms of digital elevations for each data set. The data can also be accessed using UNIX and Macintosh systems, but the user will not have the advantage of GeoVu.
Page 14 - National Climatic Data Center Federal Building, 151 Patton Avenue Asheville, NC 28801-5001 Phone: 704-271-4800 Fax: 704-271-4876 E-mail: orders@ncdc.noaa.gov Department of Commerce and US Air Force requirements.

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