Background documents

To the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)

• GCOS-82     pdf 572 kB: download
  The Second Report on the Adequacy of the Global Observing Systems for Climate in Support of the UNFCCC
  (GCOS 2AR, also WMO/TD No. 1143, April 2003)
• GCOS-92     pdf 2.9 MB: download
  Implementation Plan for the Global Observing System for Climate in Support of the UNFCCC
  (GCOS IP, also WMO/TD No. 1244, November 2004)
• GCOS-92(ES)     pdf 316 kB: download
  Executive Summary of the Implementation Plan for the Global Observing System for Climate in Support of the UNFCCC
  (November 2004)
• GCOS-107     pdf 2 MB: download
  Systematic Observation Requirements for Satellite-based Products for Climate: Supplemental details to the satellite-based component of the GCOS IP
  (September 2006)
• CEOS response      pdf 348 kB: download
  Satellite Observation of the Climate System: The CEOS reponse to the GCOS IP
  (September 2006)

OOPC-SOOP-UOP Upper Ocean Thermal Review (1999)

• UOT 1999 Methods     doc 60 kB: download
  Global Upper Ocean Thermal and Salinity Network Review: Background and Methods
  (August 1999)
• UOT 1999 Conclusions     doc 2.3 MB: download
  The Role of XBT sampling in the Ocean Thermal Network (Smith et al.)
  (August 1999)

Other

• The Slocum Mission: link
  A romanticized forward look at a future ocean observing system, as seen by Hank Stommel in 1989