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Suggested Citation:"U.S. Clivar Scientific Steering Committee." National Research Council. 1999. Emerging Global Water and Energy Initiatives--An Integrated Perspective. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/9648.
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    U.S. CLIVAR SCIENTIFIC STEERING COMMITTEE Terms of Reference

    Calling upon the U.S. scientific and technical atmospheric, oceanographic, and climate communities for assistance, the U.S. CLIVAR Scientific Steering Committee should:

    (1) Provide overall scientific and programmatic guidance to ensure that U.S. CLIVAR progresses towards achieving its scientific objectives using individual experts or expert groups as necessary.

    (2) Develop and update as needed an implementation strategy to prioritize and sequence U.S. CLIVAR activities, and comment on agency implementation of the U.S. CLIVAR Program.

    (3) Promote balance within the various elements (theory, modeling, empirical studies, long-term observations, and field campaigns) of the program and identify scientific gaps.

    (4) Work with the funding agencies to ensure that U.S. CLIVAR activities are coordinated with international CLIVAR activities and other USGCRP elements.

    (5) Provide oversight and coordination of and guidance to U.S. CLIVAR working groups.

    (6) In consultation with other advisory bodies, provide advice for the effective transition of sustained observations initiated during CLIVAR to operational entities after they have demonstrated their usefulness for climate predictions.

    (7) Keeps the NRC/CRC appraised of the status of US CLIVAR and acts as U.S. liaison to the International CLIVAR SSC.

    (8) Provide oversight of and guidance to the U.S. CLIVAR Project Office and its director (if applicable).

Suggested Citation:"U.S. Clivar Scientific Steering Committee." National Research Council. 1999. Emerging Global Water and Energy Initiatives--An Integrated Perspective. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/9648.
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    (9) Keep the research community and the general public appraised of on-going activities and achievements of CLIVAR, e.g., briefings at major conferences, overview articles, and media briefings.

    The SSC reports to the CLIVAR Interagency Group through the U.S. Global Change Research Program Office. Membership: 3-year terms, renewable only once.

Suggested Citation:"U.S. Clivar Scientific Steering Committee." National Research Council. 1999. Emerging Global Water and Energy Initiatives--An Integrated Perspective. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/9648.
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Suggested Citation:"U.S. Clivar Scientific Steering Committee." National Research Council. 1999. Emerging Global Water and Energy Initiatives--An Integrated Perspective. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/9648.
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The Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment (GEWEX) Panel of the National Research Council (NRC) was tasked by the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) to provide a rapid and succinct assessment to relevant agencies on the general merit of the GEWEX America Prediction Project (GAPP), as well as the Coordinated Enhanced Observing Period (CEOP). In addition, the panel was asked to provide guidance to the agencies on the relationships between the agencies' newly proposed hydrologic research activities, GAPP, and CEOP. Providing this guidance is critical, in part, because the federal agencies tend to have somewhat differing priorities across the wide span of GEWEX activities.

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