GOALS (Global Ocean-Atmosphere-Land System) for Predicting Seasonal-to-Interannual Climate A Program of Observation, Modeling, and Analysis (1994) / Chapter Skim
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6 RELATIONSHIP OF GOALS TO OTHER PROGRAMS
6 RELATIONSHIP OF GOALS TO OTHER PROGRAMS
Pages 61-68
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This is especially the case for the dynamical prediction of seasonal averages using uncoupled and coupled ocean-land-atmosphere models. Although the role of the ocean in DERF is minimal, modeling and prediction of seasonal-to-interannual variations involving SST changes on these time scales would help to define more precisely the ranges at which SST changes begin to exert an influence on DERF.
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Finally, it is important to note that the World Weather Watch is a measurement system designed for weather prediction but, when extended over long periods of time, it is also useful for climate measurements. So too, an upper-ocean measurement system for climate prediction of seasonal-to-interannual time scales, if extended over long periods of time, will be useful for climate assessment and prediction for much longer time scales.
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The collaborative programs that are described briefly below deserve specific mention due to their close scientific linkages to GOALS and their potentially strong contributions to the program. Global Climate Observing System (GCOS)
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The GOALS program will serve as the principal focus for basic research on seasonal-to-interannual time scales. The proposed Global Climate Observing System (GCOS)
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was established by the WCRP to address the questions of ocean heat transport and the role of the ocean in climate change on decades-to-centuries time scales. WOCE emphasizes study of the transfer of heat, momentum, and greenhouse gases between the atmosphere and the ocean.
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Of direct relevance to GOALS are the description of the ocean's present circulation and its variability, air-sea boundary-layer processes, the role of exchange among different ocean basins, and the effect of the oceanic heat storage and transport on the global heat balance. WOCE's monitoring of the upper ocean would certainly contribute to GOALS and, in turn, GOALS would eventually support and augment WOCE upper-ocean observations through the extension in time and space of the TOGA TAO array.
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The Atlantic Climate Change Program (ACCP) has focused primarily on decadal time scales of climate variability.
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