Observing and Monitoring the Climate System
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Observing and Monitoring the Climate System

Overview

Recent Accomplishments

Near-Term Plans

CCSP / USGCRP Observations and Monitoring Working Group Members

For long term plans, see Observing and Monitoring the Climate System chapter of the Strategic Plan for the Climate Change Science Program (2003) posted on CCSP web site.

Global Climate Observing System (GCOS) principally sponsored by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO)

Global Ocean Observing System sponsored by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization's Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC)

Global Terrestrial Observing System sponsored by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization.

Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations (CALIPSO) lidar and CloudSat

Climate Reference Network (CRN)

Historical Climatology Network

Atmospheric Radiation Program

Atmospheric Brown Cloud (ABC) project

NASA's Ice, Cloud, and Land Elevation Satellite (ICESat),

The Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment (SORCE) satellite

National Polar-Orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS).

Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Program

Pacific Region Integrated Data Enterprise (PRIDE)

Climate Extremes Index (CEI)

Climate Database Modernization Program,

archived Weather Surveillance Radar-88 Doppler data (WSR-88D NEXRAD)

EOS Data Gateway (EDG)

Distributed Active Archive Centers.

Comprehensive Large Array-data Stewardship System

Global Change Master Directory. The Global Change Master Directory (GCMD)

NOAA's National Data Centers

NASA's Earth Science REASoN – Research, Education, and Applications Solutions Network

(Advanced Very High-Resolution Radiometer -- AVHRR), passive microwave (Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer -- AMSR),

Earth Radiation Budget Satellite)

GCOS has fostered the integration of key elements including meteorological observations from the GOS of the WWW, atmospheric constituents from the GAW,

GOOS, and several terrestrial variables from the GTOS. Coordination of global satellite observations is carried out through the Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS).

International Global Observing Strategy (IGOS).

IGOS Partnership (IGOS-P)

The principal international research programs (e.g., the World Climate Research Programme, the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme, and the International Human Dimensions Programme)

Joint Commission for Oceanography and Marine Meteorology

TOMS, SAGE, and ACRIM,

CEOS and the IGOS