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... Bates, NOAA National Climatic experienced shifts in responses to onboard Data Center, "NPOESS EDRs vs. Climate Data Records calibration targets.
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... , Ensuring the Climate Record from the NPP and NPOESS Meteorological Satellites, The National Academies Press, Washington, D.C., 2000, and NRC, Climate Data Records from Environmental Satellites: Interim Report, The National Academies Press, Washington, D.C., 2004. 2 Robust climate data records rely on the complementary nature of seemingly duplicate observations.
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... SYNERGY VERSUS COMPETITION WITH DECADAL SURVEY As noted in the statement of task for the workshop, NPOESS/GOES-R mitigation strategies should take into account the plans for execution of the recent NRC Earth Science decadal survey. However, it is important to note that the decadal survey covers all of Earth science, including, but not limited to, climate science.
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... MEASUREMENT TEAMS VERSUS MISSION TEAMS The need for sustained attention to the establishment and maintenance of climate data records, which can involve many missions over many decades, led numerous participants to suggest the need for climate measurement teams, independent of mission science teams.
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