In the framework of the current development phase of the Satellite Application Facility on Climate Monitoring project, data from the well calibrated Scanner for Radiation Budget are used to apply the Li and Leighton algorithm to compute the shortwave surface net radiation.
The last year eastern states were poised to enter summer with such a deficit of rain was 1966, said Jay Lawrimore, the director of climate monitoring at the data center in Asheville.
We examined Length of Day (LOD), Arctic Oscillation (AO), El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO), and Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) as indices that may relate large-scale climate processes to abiotic monitoring data at Lake Baikal.
Even when equipped with climate projections, baseline information and monitoring data, managers still face very complex decisions.
Mechanisms for data collection, storage and dissemination have been created and improved for better climate monitoring, risk planning, and information sharing.
ERA-Interim may be a more robust data set for climate monitoring than other reanalyses, including in the Arctic19,36, and the CESM-LE permits accounting for natural variability32.
An indicator species approach based on selected species that are relatively common may facilitate the use of national monitoring data for predicting climate change effects on the distribution of biodiversity.
We designed an experiment where we compared growth of wind-protected and wind-exposed plants in three habitat types (desert, desert remnants and urban yards), while keeping track of air quality data via local climate monitoring stations.
If the climate reconstructions capture variability relevant for the plague system, we should hypothesize that (1) the monitoring data will show evidence of climate forcing on sylvatic plague prevalence, and (2) this will be reflected in a further, independent data set on human cases of plague, collected by the Kazakh health department from 1904-1995.
Further comparisons between CHAMP atmospheric profiles and radiosonde data as well as applications of CHAMP radio occultation data for atmospheric research and climate monitoring are given.
