Publication Date:
2022-05-25
Description:
Author Posting. © Oceanography Society, 2007. This article is posted here by permission of Oceanography Society for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Oceanography 20, 4 (2007): 10-14.
Description:
An ever-increasing volume of publications
on the changing ocean environment
underscores the requirement for
long-term observations to understand
and predict ocean and climate change.
Such observations must be globally
distributed and carried out over long
time periods. But a means of obtaining
those observations—particularly in
the ocean—is not in place today. There
is no global system of routinely funded,
long-term, high-quality measurements
to provide the necessary understanding
of climate in general and the ocean
in particular. The scientific literature
is full of examples of tantalizing short
records that do not illuminate the physical
problems. Long-term biological
measurements are in an even more limited
state of development. With society
demanding better forecasts, and the need
to quantify the human role in climate
change, it is more important than ever
that we find ways to establish the necessary
institutional basis for and achieve
the proper levels of funding for long-term
measurements.
Repository Name:
Woods Hole Open Access Server
Type:
Article
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application/pdf
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