@book{JRC88411,
	editor = {},
	address = {Dordrecht (NL)},
	year = {2013},
	author = {Trenberth K and Anthes R and Brown O and Habermann T and Karl T and Running S and Ryan B and Tanner M and Wielicki B and Belward A},
	isbn = {978-94-007-6691-4},
	abstract = {Abstract Observations of planet Earth and especially all climate system components
		and forcings are increasingly needed for planning and informed decision making
		related to climate services in the broadest sense. Although signifi cant progress has
		been made, much more remains to be done before a fully functional and dependable
		climate observing system exists. Observations are needed on spatial scales from local
		to global, and all time scales, especially to understand and document changes in
		extreme events. Climate change caused by human activities adds a new dimension and
		a vital imperative: to acquire climate observations of suffi cient quality and coverage,
		and analyze them into products for multiple purposes to inform decisions for mitigation,
		adaptation, assessing vulnerability and impacts, possible geo-engineering, and
		predicting climate variability and change and their consequences. A major challengeis to adequately deal with the continually changing observing system, especially from
		satellites and other remote sensing platforms such as in the ocean, in order to provide
		a continuous climate record. Even with new computational tools, challenges remain to
		provide adequate analysis, processing, meta-data, archival, access, and management
		of the resulting data and the data products. As volumes of data continue to grow, so do
		the challenges of distilling information to allow us to understand what is happening
		and why, and what the implications are for the future. The case is compelling that
		prompt coordinated international actions are essential to provide for informationbased
		actions and decisions related to climate variability and change.
		},
	title = {Challenges of a sustained climate observing system},
	url = {},
	volume = {},
	number = {},
	journal = {},
	pages = {13-50},
	issn = {},
	publisher = {Springer},
	doi = {10.1007/978-94-007-6692-1}
}