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Interagency Collaboration on Space and Earth Science Missions B
Long-Term Sustained Observations for Climate An important
additional theme in NASA-NOAA collaboration arises from the need
for long-term sustained observations of climate. A climate data
record may be defined as “a time series of measurements of
sufficient length, consistency, and continuity to determine
climate variability a