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Article: Participation of Latin America and the Caribbean in the global climatological records, GHCN/ Participacion de America Latina y del Caribe en los registros globales climatologicos, GHCN/Participacao da America Latina e do Caribe nos registros globais climatologicos, GHCN.
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- Interciencia
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- September 1, 2006
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SUMMARY
It is impossible to overestimate the importance of historical meteorological records for studies of global climate change. Many of these studies are based on data in GHCN, the Global Historical Climatology Network, a meteorological data compilation available over the Internet that is comprised of voluntary contributions from all over the world. Even though the participation of countries is worthy of note, it should also be recognized that their contributions vary in quality and quantity, and especially in being up to date. Data of many Latin American countries are incomplete and not up to date, which can cause errors in studies based on these data. Tables ...