China establishes climate change monitor network
The China Meteorological Administration (CMA) has completed a national climate observation network to help mitigate global warming.
By PTI |
BEIJING: China, already facing the negative effects of global warming, has established a national observation network to help mitigate climate change.
The China Meteorological Administration (CMA) yesterday said it has completed a national climate observation network to help mitigate global warming.
CMA director Zheng Guo-guang said the network would collect accurate information about climate change.
"Climate change is threatening the environment, state security and economic development," Zheng said.
Responding to a UN plan, China's first climate observation network was set up in 1997.
Seven departments - meteorology, water affairs, agriculture, environmental protection, forestry, ocean and scientific research - joined the network.
The other areas include Dunhuang desert in Gansu province, ecological systems in source regions of the Yangtze, Yellow and Lancang rivers, the economic belt around Beijing and economic development zones in the Yangtze and Pearl river deltas.
By observation and data processing, the network should provide data about temperatures, glaciers, frozen soil, accumulated snow, aerosoles, greenhouse gases, ozone, plant and soil.
The China Meteorological Administration (CMA) yesterday said it has completed a national climate observation network to help mitigate global warming.
CMA director Zheng Guo-guang said the network would collect accurate information about climate change.
"Climate change is threatening the environment, state security and economic development," Zheng said.
Responding to a UN plan, China's first climate observation network was set up in 1997.
Seven departments - meteorology, water affairs, agriculture, environmental protection, forestry, ocean and scientific research - joined the network.
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The network set up 16 key observation areas including the atmosphere and land systems in the Qinghai-Tibetan plateau, glacier, water and ecological systems in the Tianshan Mountain area, director of the Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, Zhang Renhe said. The other areas include Dunhuang desert in Gansu province, ecological systems in source regions of the Yangtze, Yellow and Lancang rivers, the economic belt around Beijing and economic development zones in the Yangtze and Pearl river deltas.
By observation and data processing, the network should provide data about temperatures, glaciers, frozen soil, accumulated snow, aerosoles, greenhouse gases, ozone, plant and soil.
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