Climate Data Records from Environmental Satellites Interim Report (2004) / Chapter Skim
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6 Conclusions and Recommendations
6 Conclusions and Recommendations
Pages 95-102
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based on satellite observations have the necessary reliability and consistency to distinguish between artificial changes related to the observing system and real changes in climate. Developing a successful satellite CDR generation program poses many challenges owing to the varied uses of climate data, the complexities of data generation and storage, and the difficulties in sustaining the program indefinitely.
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APPLYING NEW APPROACHES TO GENERATE AND MANAGE SATELLITE CDRS Supporting Recommendation 1: NOAA should utilize an organiza tional structure where a high-level leadership council within NOAA receives advice from an advisory council that provides input to the process on behalf of the climate research community and other stake holders. The advisory council should be supported by instrument and science teams responsible for overseeing the generation of climate data records.
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TCDR Science Teams formed within broad interdisciplinary areas should prescribe algorithms for TCDR development and oversee TCDR generation. Most users will utilize TCDRs, not FCDRs, and the success of NOAA's program is dependent on creating reliable and stable TCDRs.
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It is the process of establishing rigorously derived uncertainties for the TCDR using independent correlative measurements conducted throughout the time period of record and over global scales, which in turn determines whether a true climate trend can be detected. NOAA should establish a two-track CDR generation program, including an upgradeable baseline CDR track and a second (mostly extramural)
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NOAA should ensure a data management infrastructure that can accommodate specific user requests. In view of the large satellite data volumes that a CDR program will create, the NOAA infrastructure needs to provide tools enabling the user to do spatial and temporal searches and arbitrary subsetting.
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The goals and management structure of the developing Climate Change Science Program are similar to NOAA's climate goals, and NOAA could assert leadership by volunteering to be the lead or executive agent for the observations and data management portion pertaining to satel lite CDRs. The CCSP structure already has built-in interagency interactions that NOAA could leverage, and by taking the lead for satellite CDRs, NOAA could advance its new climate mandate.
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Even if NOAA leverages funds and personnel from other agencies, academia, and private industry, the committee believes that NOAA will have to be aggressive in developing avenues for additional funds to provide the needed capital to successfully generate, analyze, reprocess, store, and disseminate CDRs for decades, taking inflationary increases into account. Developing a satellite CDR program is fundamentally important to the nation, and it is imperative that the effort not be inhibited by a lack of human or financial resources.
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