Global Climate Observing System Reference Upper-Air Network
- Name: Global Climate Observing System Reference Upper-Air Network
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- Source Document Link: https://www.gruan.org/
- Description: The Global Climate Observing System (GCOS) Reference Upper-Air Network (GRUAN) is an international reference observing network of sites measuring essential climate variables above Earth's surface, designed to fill an important gap in the current global observing system. GRUAN measurements are providing long-term, high-quality climate data records from the surface, through the troposphere, and into the stratosphere.
- Used by Disciplines: Atmospheric Science, Climatology
- Keywords: essential variables, reference data