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Emerging Global Water and Energy Initiatives--An Integrated Perspective (1999)
Commission on Geosciences, Environment and Resources (CGER)

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    GEWEX Hydrometeorology Panel Perspective. Working Draft of April 29, 1999.

    "ABSTRACT

    The [international] GEWEX Hydrometeorology Panel (GHP), through its five Continental Scale Experiments (BALTEX [Baltic Sea Experiment], GAME [GEWEX Asian Monsoon Experiment], GCIP [GEWEX Continental-Scale International Project], LBA [Large-Scale Biosphere Atmosphere Experiment in Amazonia], and MAGS [Mackenzie GEWEX Study]) is initiating a cooperative effort for a Coordinated Enhanced Observing Period (CEOP) in the 2001–2002 time period to take advantage of the first opportunity to compile continental data sets on a global scale derived from a new generation of satellites [e.g., EOS AM-1, Landsat-7, Envisat, ADEOS-2, EOS PM-1, and NOAA K/L/M]. The GHP perspective given in this overview is particularly focused on the land surface-atmospheric interactions and their impacts on the regional and larger scale climate systems as part of an overall scientific objective for CEOP:

    To understand and model the influence of continental hydroclimate processes on the predictability of global atmospheric circulation and changes in water resources, with a particular focus on the heat source and sink regions that drive and modify the climate system and anomalies.

     

    This GHP perspective on CEOP can be much broader through cooperative efforts, which include the oceanographic community, the large scale climate modeling community, and Arctic researchers. Planning for these cooperative efforts is now in process and will be included in an updated version of this plan."

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    NRC, 1998b. The Atmospheric Sciences Entering the Twenty-First Century. National Academy Press, Washington, D.C., 364 pp. The full reference to hydrologic research is as follows: "We have identified a number of emerging basic research, technique, and technological developments that, on the basis of their intrinsic intellectual value and/or potential economic or societal payoff, should be given high priority in the coming decades. Here, these key developments are summarized, and specific recommendations based on them are offered. . ." ". . .5. Improved understanding of the hydrologic cycle and much better measurements of atmospheric water: Ongoing advances in understanding the control of atmospheric water (in all phases) will lead to
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