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Global Climate Observing System (GCOS)
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The Global Climate Observing System (GCOS) was established in 1992 to ensure that the observations and information needed to address climate-related issues are obtained and made available to all potential users. It is co-sponsored by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the International Council for Science (ICSU). GCOS is intended to be a long-term, user-driven operational system capable of providing the comprehensive observations required for monitoring the climate system, for detecting and attributing climate change, for assessing the impacts of climate variability and change, and for supporting research toward improved understanding, modelling and prediction of the climate system. It addresses the total climate system including physical, chemical and biological properties, and atmospheric, oceanic, hydrologic, cryospheric and terrestrial processes.

GCOS does not itself directly make observations nor generate data products. It stimulates, encourages, coordinates and otherwise facilitates the taking of the needed observations by national or international organizations in support of their own requirements as well as of common goals. It provides an operational framework for integrating, and enhancing as needed, observational systems of participating countries and organizations into a comprehensive system focussed on the requirements for climate issues. GCOS builds upon, and works in partnership with, other existing and developing observing systems such as the Global Ocean Observing System, the Global Terrestrial Observing System, and the Global Observing System and Global Atmospheric Watch of the World Meteorological Organization.   See More...

 
 
 
 
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TitleWater Resources eAtlas  ( MULTIMEDIA FILE )
Author(s) / Editor(s) IUCN-The World Conservation Union, the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), the Ramsar Convention Bureau, and the World Resources Institute (WRI)
DescriptionTo start navigating through the CD, visit the Watersheds of the World_CD Web site at http://www.iucn.org/themes/wani/eatlas/. You will find colored buttons that function as a menu to select individual basins by continent. Each continental menu provides access to both, interactive maps and lists of basins per continent through which you can access individual basin profiles. There is also a button for the global indicator maps.

All basin profiles and global maps can also be downloaded as PDFs.

Keywords RIVER BASIN WRI WATERSHED
Content Language(s)English
Web Addresshttp://www.iucn.org/themes/wani/eatlas/
Type of Multimedia File Map: Online Dynamic Map
Related to TopicsRiver Basins (3520)
  
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