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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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7 GOALS PROGRAM MANAGEMENT
Pages 69-72

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... Program management for GOALS would be modeled on the structure so successfully employed in the TOGA program, a prototype for programs designed to address complex issues of global climate change. Figure 7-1 depicts the proposed organizational structure for GOALS and its relationship to CLIVAR.
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From page 70...
... Shown are relationships among oversight committees, science panels, project offices, federal agencies, and groups participating in the GOALS program. Also depicted are relevant components of the CLIVAR management structure and its principal communication link to the GOALS program through the project offices (dashed line)
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From page 71...
... As the needs of the program dictate, the GOALS Project Office would invite groups to prepare coordinated sets of research proposals designed to address specific objectives of GOALS. Close coordination between GOALS and international CLIVAR would be maintained through a formal link between the project offices for the two programs and an informal liaison between the GOALS Panel and the International CLIVAR Scientific Steering Group.
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