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Appendix D Letter to Thomas Karl
Appendix D Letter to Thomas Karl
Pages 45-47
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, particularly DOE, NASA, NOAA, and NSF, we want to share with you and the Committee on Climate Research a growing concern we are observing over the stability of the observing and related longterm database systems upon which nearly all of our current understanding of recent and future climate and global change trends depends. An increasing number of global change and climate researchers seem to be voicing this concern over a perceived deterioration of some of the observing systems.
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Ideally, the suggested study should be structured in an open manner that would allow the scientific community, members of the communities that utilize operational data, staff members from agencies, and Congressional committees and/or their staff to interact with the NRC scientists and professional staff performing the study. We recognize that, while the Climate Research Committee is well-constituted to undertake the climate portion of such a study, cooperation with other NRC units (CGCR, and the many related committees and boards)
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Robert Corell, Chair Subcommittee Global Change Research Committee on Environment and Natural Resources cc: SGCR, William Townsend - NASA, Nancy Maynard - NASA, Robert Winokur- NOAA, Robert Schiffer - NASA, Tom Mace - EPA, Michael MacCracken - Office of the US/GCRP, David Goodrich - NRC
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