Global Climate Observing System

The Global Climate Observing System (GCOS) (German: Globales Klimabeobachtungssystem ) is a worldwide facility for climate observation.

The system is supported by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO , the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) and the International Council for Science (ICSU).

GCOS is designed as a long-term, user-oriented and operational system that enables the collection of comprehensive climate observations . Areas of application for the observations provided are climate monitoring, the recording of natural and man-made climate change and the allocation of its causes ( climate change detection and attribution ), the assessment of damage caused by climate change and variability ( assessment of climate change and climate variability ) and research in the areas of understanding, modeling and forecasting the climate system .

The entire climate system is covered with its physical, chemical and biological properties and the atmospheric , oceanic , hydrological , cryospheric and terrestrial processes that take place in it .

The German contributions to the Global Climate Observing System were summarized in an inventory report in 2013.

literature

John Houghton , John Townshend, Kirk Dawson, Paul Mason, John Zillman, Adrian Simmons: The GCOS at 20 years: the origin, achievement and future development of the Global Climate Observing System . In: Weather . July 2012, doi : 10.1002 / wea.1964 (open access).

Web links

GCOS website , World Meteorological Organization WMO (English)
Swiss GCOS Office at the Federal Office for Meteorology and Climatology (German)
GCOS Austria ( Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics )
German GCOS coordination at the German Weather Service
German contributions to the GCOS

Individual evidence

↑ Ina Abel, Michaela Bach, Andreas Becker, Klaus Behrens, Séverine Bernoville, Michael Bittner, Jörg Uwe Belz, Ute Dauert, Michael Diepenbrok, Anna-Dorothea Ebner von Eschenbach, Heidi Escher-Vetter, Jürgen Fischer, Alexander Frohse, Petra Fuchs, Ulrich Görsdorf, Johann G. Goldammer, Wilfried Hagg, Jürgen Holfort, T. Hanke, Rainer Hollmann, Uwe Kaminski, Lars Kaleschke, Frank Kaspar, Stefan Kern, Birgit Klein, Holger Klein, Gert König-Langlo, Arne Körtzinger, Willi Laier, Michael Lautenschlager, Christiana Lefebvre, Peter Löwe, Ulrich Looser, Hermann Mächel, Christoph Mayer, Richard Müller, Gerhard Müller-Westermeier, Christine Polte-Rudolf, Andreas von Poschinger, Monika Rhein, Ulf Riebesell, Ludwig Ries, Stefan Rösner, Friedhelm Rosenke, Tilo Schöne, Dieter Schrader, Klaus-Jürgen Schreiber, Marc Schröder, Detlef Stammer, Willibald Stichler, Christine Stumpp, Frank Toussaint, Hans Josef Theis, Astrid Uhlmann, Holger Vömel, Martin Wegehenkel, Sieglinde Weigelt-Krenz, Nicole Wellbrock, Klaus-Peter Wittich, Kirsten Zimmermann: The German Climate Observation Systems - Inventory Report on the Global Climate Observing System (GCOS) . Editorial revised version: March 2017. Ed .: Deutscher Wetterdienst. Offenbach am Main 2013, ISBN 978-3-88148-460-2 ( dwd.de ).

[1] Ina Abel, Michaela Bach, Andreas Becker, Klaus Behrens, Séverine Bernoville, Michael Bittner, Jörg Uwe Belz, Ute Dauert, Michael Diepenbrok, Anna-Dorothea Ebner von Eschenbach, Heidi Escher-Vetter, Jürgen Fischer, Alexander Frohse, Petra Fuchs, Ulrich Görsdorf, Johann G. Goldammer, Wilfried Hagg, Jürgen Holfort, T. Hanke, Rainer Hollmann, Uwe Kaminski, Lars Kaleschke, Frank Kaspar, Stefan Kern, Birgit Klein, Holger Klein, Gert König-Langlo, Arne Körtzinger, Willi Laier, Michael Lautenschlager, Christiana Lefebvre, Peter Löwe, Ulrich Looser, Hermann Mächel, Christoph Mayer, Richard Müller, Gerhard Müller-Westermeier, Christine Polte-Rudolf, Andreas von Poschinger, Monika Rhein, Ulf Riebesell, Ludwig Ries, Stefan Rösner, Friedhelm Rosenke, Tilo Schöne, Dieter Schrader, Klaus-Jürgen Schreiber, Marc Schröder, Detlef Stammer, Willibald Stichler, Christine Stumpp, Frank Toussaint, Hans Josef Theis, Astrid Uhlmann, Holger Vömel, Martin Wegehenkel, Sieglinde Weigelt-Krenz, Nicole Wellbrock, Klaus-Peter Wittich, Kirsten Zimmermann: The German Climate Observation Systems - Inventory Report on the Global Climate Observing System (GCOS) . Editorial revised version: March 2017. Ed .: Deutscher Wetterdienst. Offenbach am Main 2013, ISBN 978-3-88148-460-2 ( dwd.de ).