Strategy Needed to Sustain Critical Climate and Space Weather Measurements.

UNITED States. Government Accountability Office; SPACE environment; RISK assessment of climate change; ENVIRONMENTAL monitoring; INTERAGENCY coordination; UNITED States. National Aeronautics & Space Administration

The article presents a report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) in the U.S. on how to sustain critical climate and space weather measurements. A performance audit was conducted from June 2009 to April 2010 in accordance with the auditing standards. Plans developed by some of the agencies such as the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) were compared to evaluate federal efforts in establishing strategy for the long-term provision of satellite-provided climate data.