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From page 1... ... GOALS Project Office and provide overall scientific leadership and regular guidance on long-range scientific policy, planning, progress, and priorities to that office as well as to involved agencies on behalf of the CRC. � Report regularly to inform the CRC on the Panel's involvement in U.S. Read the entire page →
From page 2... ... A key aspect of GOALS is the identification of those characteristics of the global system that would make significant improvements in climate prediction on seasonal-tointerannual time scales possible. The impetus for GOALS stemmed from the success of TOGA, the Tropical Oceans and Global Atmosphere program, which established the existence of "predictability" on seasonal-to-interannual time scales in the Pacific Ocean for equatorial sea surface temperature (SST) Read the entire page →
From page 3... ... To ensure a meaningful scientific investigation of this component of GOALS, the panel recommends that the United States seek international partners for the exploration of the Asian-Australian monsoon system. Just as the maintenance of the Pacific ocean-atmosphere observational array and the PACS program are expected to require strong interagency support in the United States, the global and far reaching totality of GOALS would require a well-coordinated international effort. Read the entire page →
From page 4... ... Internal linkages described in Section 12 refer to possible implementation aspects comprising a combination of individual research investigators and consortia, the precise funding details of which should be determined by the federal agencies responsible for and involved in GOALS. The interactions necessary between GOALS and other national and international research and observational programs are also summarized in Section 12, as are other coordination mechanisms and implementation aspects. Read the entire page →

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... GOALS Project Office and provide overall scientific leadership and regular guidance on long-range scientific policy, planning, progress, and priorities to that office as well as to involved agencies on behalf of the CRC. � Report regularly to inform the CRC on the Panel's involvement in U.S.

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... A key aspect of GOALS is the identification of those characteristics of the global system that would make significant improvements in climate prediction on seasonal-tointerannual time scales possible. The impetus for GOALS stemmed from the success of TOGA, the Tropical Oceans and Global Atmosphere program, which established the existence of "predictability" on seasonal-to-interannual time scales in the Pacific Ocean for equatorial sea surface temperature (SST)

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... To ensure a meaningful scientific investigation of this component of GOALS, the panel recommends that the United States seek international partners for the exploration of the Asian-Australian monsoon system. Just as the maintenance of the Pacific ocean-atmosphere observational array and the PACS program are expected to require strong interagency support in the United States, the global and far reaching totality of GOALS would require a well-coordinated international effort.

Read the entire page →

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... Internal linkages described in Section 12 refer to possible implementation aspects comprising a combination of individual research investigators and consortia, the precise funding details of which should be determined by the federal agencies responsible for and involved in GOALS. The interactions necessary between GOALS and other national and international research and observational programs are also summarized in Section 12, as are other coordination mechanisms and implementation aspects.

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Executive Summary
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