Needed: Climate research stations

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Many scientists investigating climatic fluctuations are encountering serious data base inadequacies: observing stations that moved to new locations without concern for homogeneity of record, or observational procedures that abruptly changed, for instance. In addition, at many climatic stations the coverage of physical parameters (not to say chemical also) at any particular place is incomplete for any integrative or impact study.Last summer, a possible aid to research on climatic fluctuations and their impact on other environmental parameters developed in a workshop of the International Geographic Union (IGU) Commission on Geographical Monitoring, which met for about 10 days in Moscow and the Caucasus Mountains. This meeting had support from the U.N. Environmental Programme (UNEP) and was cochaired by Svendel Evteev, a Soviet Antarctic scientist (Institute of Geography, Soviet Academy of Sciences, Moscow), and Nigel Wace, an Australian biogeographer (Australian National University, Canberra), with the active participation of Soviet academician Kirill Kondrat'ev (Institute of Limnology, Leningrad) and Michael Gwynne of UNEP, which operates the Global Environmental Monitoring System (GEMS). The outcome of the workshop may be of interest to environmentally aware geoscientists in the United States.

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