In 1986, when GMCC became the Climate Monitoring and Diagnostics Laboratory and HATS was formed, efforts were initiated to increase the number of gases measured from each flask.

Front Cover: Global measurement sites of the Climate Monitoring and Diagnostics Laboratory.

Weather and environmental monitoring (Climate Monitoring, Water Survey of Canada)

"Despite the variability caused by short-term changes, the analysis conducted for this report illustrates why we are so confident the world is warming," Peter Stott, head of Climate Monitoring and Attribution at the Hadley Met Office, said in a statement.

The reduction is now about 10 to 15 percent, said Ellsworth Dutton, a meteorologist at N.O.A.A.'s Climate Monitoring and Diagnostics Laboratory in Boulder, Colo.

The new analysis, described in the current issue of Geophysical Research Letters, is by the Commerce Department's Climate Monitoring and Diagnostics Laboratory in Boulder, Colo., and the National Institute for Space Research of the Netherlands.

This study was supported by the National Science Foundation under grant OPP-9321547 and NOAA's Climate Monitoring and Diagnostics Laboratory.

The Climate Monitoring and Diagnostics Laboratory (CMDL) is part of NOAA's Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR) division.

And his graph displaying the advancement of egg-laying among his colony of guillemots has been given a special place of honor on the wall of the Climate Monitoring and Diagnostics Laboratory in Barrow, next to the graphs of several multimillion-dollar government studies.

ERL CMDL-5, Climate Monitoring and Diagnostics Laboratory, Boulder, CO, 118 pp., 1993.