A Scientific Strategy for U.S. Participation in the GOALS (Global Ocean-Atmosphere-Land System) Component of the CLIVAR (Climate Variability and Predictability) Programme (1998) / Chapter Skim
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12 Coordination and Implementation Considerations
12 Coordination and Implementation Considerations
Pages 53-59
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That is, each element of GOALS must be cognizant of activities in all other elements of the program. In particular, there is a need to forge strong links among those making observations, the research and applications users of the observations, those responsible for the preparation and distribution of various derived products, and modelers, empirical and physical alike.
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Activities include the organization of a series of coordinated studies of monsoon heat sources and sinks and the underlying SST gradients, flows through straits separating the two ocean basins and their effects on the reflection of waves at the western boundaries, the role of boundary currents in the western Pacific and Indian Oceans, and the heat balance between respective basins. Improved understanding of air-sea coupling in these basins would then be built into models of global climate, with the intent of understanding the impact of the AsianAustralian monsoon system on remote locations such as North America.
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GOALS considers consortia of a number of individual investigators a powerful mechanism for achieving critical mass when addressing scientific objectives. At the same time, the efforts of individual principal investigators are a crucial component, and a significant part of the resources need to be reserved to facilitate individual research efforts.
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Global Climate Research Program. The GOALS program will serve as the principal focus for basic research on seasonal-to-interannual time scales.
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The SCPP and the IRI provide predictions on seasonal-to-interannual time scales. The Climate Observing System and Climate Change and Data Detection (CCDD)
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and program development meetings and announcements of opportunity, with a focus on topics of common interest between programs, for example, a scientific meeting sponsored jointly by GOALS and GEWEX (Joint NRC panel meetings have proven useful in the past and should be encouraged.~; 2. exchange of data between programs and coordinated development of data sets of relevance and value to more than one program (For example, time series of surface forcing variables for atmospheric models should be made universally available for use in sensitivity and predictability tests.~; 3.
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The federal agencies would be responsible for implementing GOALS through coordinated funding of research grants. An Interagency GOALS Project Office would serve as a focal point for the implementation of the national research effort, and the GOALS Panel (with oversight from the NRC's CRC)
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