Snow Watch 1992. Detection Strategies for Snow and Ice. An International Workshopon Snow and Lake Ice Cover and the Climate System. Held in Ontario, Canada on 29 March-1 April, 1992. Workshop on Cryopheric Data Rescue and Access, Held in Pennsylvania on M

摘要

The Snow Watch '92 workshop is the third meeting of the informal Snow Watch groupmet to review strategies for detection of changes in global snow and lake ice cover as climate system indicators. The reports and recommendations of the previous meetings, on which the 1992 workshop build, are published in Glaciological Data, Report GD-11 (Snow Watch '80) and GD-18 (Snow Watch '85). The working groups examined previous recommendations and noted areas where progress had taken place. The issue also contains the report of a Workshop on Cryospheric Data Rescue and Access held at Pennsylvania State University, 11-12 May 1993. The workshop was supported by NOAA's program of Earth System Data and Information Management (ESDIM). The twenty-one workshop participants developed guidelines for selecting data required in support of observational studies of modeling the cryosphere, focussing on snow cover, sea ice, ice sheets and glaciers. Candidate high-priority data sets for these areas are identified in the report, together with data considered at risk and in need of rescue.