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In this chapter we describe the main components of what is commonly known as the World Weather Watch Global Observing System (GOS), and review the different techniques to observe the atmosphere, the ocean and land surfaces. It should be stressed that the various observing systems generally tend to be complementary to one another, and that redundancy where it exists is valuable as it enables cross checking and inter-comparison of data.
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Thépaut, JN., Andersson, E. (2010). The Global Observing System. In: Lahoz, W., Khattatov, B., Menard, R. (eds) Data Assimilation. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74703-1_10
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