GOALS (Global Ocean-Atmosphere-Land System) for Predicting Seasonal-to-Interannual Climate

GOALS (Global Ocean-Atmosphere-Land System) for Predicting Seasonal-to-Interannual Climate

A Program of Observation, Modeling, and Analysis

  • Publisher: National Academies Press
  • ISBN: 9780309051804
  • eISBN Pdf: 9780309587495
  • Place of publication:  United States
  • Year of digital publication: 1994
  • Month: January
  • Pages: 116
  • Language: English

This book lays out a science plan for a major, international, 15-year research program. The past 10 years have seen significant progress in studies of short-term climate variations, in particular for the region of the tropical Pacific Ocean and the El Nino/Southern Oscillation phenomenon. Some forecast skill with lead times as long as a year in advance has already been developed and put to use. The GOALS program plans to capitalize on this progress by expanding efforts on observations and seasonal-to-interannual predictions to the remainder of the tropics and to higher latitudes.

  • Cover
  • FRONT MATTER
  • EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
  • 1 INTRODUCTION
  • 2 THE GOALS PROGRAM AND ITS SCIENTIFIC OBJECTIVES
  • 3 LARGE-SCALE INTERACTIONS AMONG THE UPPER OCEAN, ATMOSPHERE, AND LAND
  • 4 ELEMENTS AND GROWTH OF THE PROGRAM
  • 5 DATA MANAGEMENT
  • 6 RELATIONSHIP OF GOALS TO OTHER PROGRAMS
  • 7 GOALS PROGRAM MANAGEMENT
  • APPENDICES
  • APPENDIX A: PRESENT STATUS OF SHORT TERM CLIMATE PREDICTION
  • APPENDIX B: THE 1993 GOALS STUDY CONFERENCE
  • APPENDIX C: ACRONYMS AND OTHER INITIALS
  • REFERENCES

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