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D.4.4.1_Long-term strategic plan for site-specific operating of monitoring and observation system at Pilot Sites

Updated on :11/04/2022

The report is a companion report of D4.4.2 (Guidelines for climate change monitoring in the cooperation area), which is providing the recommendations specifically targeting the key activities that would assure the sustainability of the climate monitoring on the long term, related to the monitoring programmes itself, tools for more efficient management, securing long-term finances, opening the data and the data products to all potential users and products, fostering collaborations between scientists, managers and policy-makers, and on educational activities. This deliverable overview first the common climate monitoring approaches, including the list of essential climate variables that are a standard of monitoring systems. Then, the sampling strategy is developed for all five Pilot Sites, and include an overview of a site, present-level sampling strategy and plans for the future. Finally, an overview of sustainability instruments is provided.