WMO has strengthened its capacity to assist countries in managing climate related risks, improving historical climate records, capacity building and training.

So, many times when you try to do research on data, it records complicated stories it's hard to find in the data.

Efficient land use management could be enhanced through computerization of land records and data.

(b) Improving access to high quality data and information on current and future climate variability and extreme events

Parties also mentioned the lack of data on and understanding of the interactions between health conditions and climate.

Records management methods and techniques are becoming highly relevant in this age of huge quantities of data and information.

And what we do is go through all of those records and exclude everything that's not the highest quality data.

That process has involved compiling over 400,000 records from 195 different files (based on requests for telecommunications data) into one central database.

Many Parties noted that data observed and collected for some climate variables are adequate for making a general predication of weather trends.

The usefulness of the Ministry's records is limited, however, because while the data are disaggregated by gender, they are not by ethnocultural origin.

There is much data on some variables such as climate and water but none or nearly none on other variables such as rehabilitation.

To computerize the records of 4.8 million registered refugees on new web based information technology and create integrated refugee data from all Agency programmes.

In the area of hydrology, ARS scientists, in close cooperation with NASA and the Department of Commerce (DoC), used ground based and remotely sensed data to aid in understanding how conditions in river basins influence climate and climate change.

The expert group assessed the strengths and weaknesses of the two most common forms of data collection on violence against women, i.e., population based surveys and the extrapolation of data on such violence from service based records and statistics.

The basic sources for follow up to target 3 are the administrative records of the Ministry of Education and data compiled by the National Statistical Institute.

While the Plan outlines the actions needed to make the Global Climate Observing System fully operational and efficient, it also highlights the importance of climate related data to be provided by the Global Terrestrial Observing System and the Global Ocean Observing System.

Other Parties reported the lack of an integrated coordinated and standard approach in the present arrangements for collection, storing, quality control and dispersion of climate observation data.

Unfortunately, neither the data provided to the Group during its visit to Kigali nor the publicly available records indicate the local production of cassiterite or the quantities imported.

These task forces attempt to identify terrorists through analysis of a variety of data and do not rely solely on know your customer records and Suspicious Transaction Reports.

example, encompass cooperation with the tax authorities of host countries and the provision of appropriate accounting data and tax reconciliation records for tax inspections when required (UNCTAD 2003).

Rob Dunbar hunts for data on our climate from 12,000 years ago, finding clues inside ancient seabeds and corals and inside ice sheets. His work is vital in setting baselines for fixing our current climate and in tracking the rise of deadly ocean acidification.

The effectiveness of the measures that are in place, as well as those yet to be implemented, can be evaluated through the maintenance of proper traffic accident data records.

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In hazard prevention studies, the interpretation of satellite data together with the analysis of geological records make it possible to reconstruct a historical overview of the occurrence of damaging events.

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In the years to come DIVERSITAS, another international global change research programme, dealing with biodiversity, will provide data and enhanced knowledge on the links between climate change and biological diversity.

Methods of data collection include such quantitative methods as censuses, household surveys, vital registration and health status and service records systems, as well as qualitative methods (focus groups and participatory inquiries).

Monitoring based on customs statistics, import licenses issued and importers records allow for transparency and provide, despite some mistakes detected, a fairly reliable data basis for calculating trade and consumption of ODS.

Using hospital records in each province as a primary source of data, Iran proposes to register cancer cases that were diagnosed from 1991 through 2003 in all hospitals of the provinces under study in order to conduct two statistical analyses, after making checks for missing or invalid data.

Science columnist Lee Hotz describes a remarkable project at WAIS Divide, Antarctica, where a hardy team are drilling into ten thousand year old ice to extract vital data on our changing climate.

The data is fundamental to our understanding of contemporary processes of global relevance such as ozone depletion, atmospheric pollution, climate change, the melting of ice shelves and glaciers and sea level rise.

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Therefore much of the information presented on climate change impacts on human health was based on qualitative assessments, although a few Parties used statistical correlation to infer the relationship between climate characteristics, population data and incidence of diseases such as heat stress, cramps, dehydration, rashes, vascular and renal disorders, viral conjunctivitis and influenza.

Observation posts in nine countries, each of them equipped with an Inmarsat A portable satellite communication system, report regularly on climate and soil conditions in real time, complementing GIS and remote sensing data.

The need for strengthening observing systems for climate data was one reason for the recent establishment of the Global Earth Observation System of Systems the advent of which represents an important step forward.

experiencing stresses from current climate and climate related events and phenomena that could be exacerbated by future climate change.

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