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Trends '90: A Compendium of Data on Global Change
This document is a source of frequently used global change data. This first issue includes estimates for global and national CO{sub 2} emissions from the burning of fossil fuels and from the production of cement, historical and modern records of atmospheric CO{sub 2} and methane concentrations, and several long-term temperature records. Included are tabular and graphical presentations of the data, discussions of trends in the data, and references to publications that provide further information. Data are presented in a two-page format, each dealing with a different data set. All data are available in digital form from the Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center
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Design of the CART data system for the US Department of Energy's ARM Program
The Department of Energy (DOE) has initiated a major atmospheric research effort to reduce the uncertainties found in general circulation and other models due to the effects of clouds and radiation. The objective of the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Program (ARM) is to provide an experimental testbed for the study of important atmospheric effects, particularly cloud and radiative processes, and testing parameterizations of the processes for use in atmospheric models. This experimental testbed, known as the Clouds and Radiation Testbed (CART), will include a complex data system, the CART Data Environment (CDE). The major functions of the CDE will be to: acquire environments from instruments and external data sources; perform quality assessments of the data streams; create data streams of known quality to be used as model input compared to model output; execute the models and capture their predictions; and make data streams associated with model tests available to ARM investigators in near real-time. The CDE will also be expected to capture ancillary information ( meta-data'') associated with the data streams, provide data management facilities for design of ARM experiments, and provide for archival data storage. The first section of this paper presents background information on CART. Next the process for the functional design of the system is described, the functional requirements summarized, and the conceptual architecture of the CDE is presented. Finally, the status of the CDE design activities is summarized, and major technical challenges are discussed
Natural diet of the spiny lobster, Panulirus echinatus Smith, 1869 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palinuridae), from São Pedro and São Paulo Archipelago, Brazil
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Retrospective on CDIAC's Activities in U.S.-China Research on the Greenhouse Effect
This paper summarizes the accomplishments of the Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center under a joint research program on the greenhouse effect conducted by the US and the People's Republic of China. The focus is on efforts in the areas of computing systems; data quality assurance, documentation, and publication; data analysis; data exchange and distribution; project summary and bibliography publication; and visitor exchange
Reproductive biology of the spiny lobster, Panulirus Penicillatus, in the southeastern coastal waters off Taiwan
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Clouds and Radiation Testbed Data Environment: Site data system and experiment center
The Department of Energy (DOE) has initiated the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) program as a research effort to reduce the uncertainties found in general circulation and other models due to the effects of clouds and solar radiation (DOE 1990, Patrinos, et al. 1990). This program will provide an experimental testbed for the study of important atmospheric effects, particularly cloud and radiative processes, and testing of parameterizations of the processes for use in atmospheric models. The design of the testbed, known as the Clouds and Radiation Testbed (CART), calls for five long-term field data collection sites as well as a mobile set of instrumentation to be used in short-term field campaigns. The first of the sites is expected to begin operation in April of 1992. Within the ARM Program, an experiment has been defined as the prospective test of a model, i.e., the test of a model's predictive capability. An experiment is specified by identifying the model or models to be tested, the model input requirements, the measurements needed for comparison to model outputs, and the measurements needed to diagnose model performance. The identification of required measurements includes the specification of data fusion or other techniques to be used in converting the basic instrument observations into the required set of measurements. The CART Data Environment (CDE) is the element of the testbed which acquires the basic observations from the instruments and processes them to meet the measurement requirements of ARM experiments