%0 Book %A National Research Council %T GOALS (Global Ocean-Atmosphere-Land System) for Predicting Seasonal-to-Interannual Climate: A Program of Observation, Modeling, and Analysis %@ 978-0-309-05180-4 %D 1994 %U https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/4811/goals-global-ocean-atmosphere-land-system-for-predicting-seasonal-to-interannual-climate %> https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/4811/goals-global-ocean-atmosphere-land-system-for-predicting-seasonal-to-interannual-climate %I The National Academies Press %C Washington, DC %G English %K Earth Sciences %P 116 %R doi:10.17226/4811 %X 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.