Improving the Effectiveness of U.S. Climate Modeling (2001) / Chapter Skim
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A Vision for the Future
A Vision for the Future
Pages 75-80
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The panel is compelled to augment its view that addressing modeling alone is not enough, and that climate modeling can be made more effective by the creation of operational entities that maintain observing systems, produce and disseminate climate information, and are responsible for coordinating certain functions with the climate research community and the weather forecasting operational community. High-end climate modeling depends on observations and on research.
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It is the difficulty of climate research that, while it is easy to put together field programs of limited duration to measure poorly understood processes, it is almost impossible to sustain measurements on climatic time scales. The climate research community neither has the infrastructure for doing so nor are sustained observations amenable to the usual peer review process, because sustaining observations is not itself research.
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Centralized, expensive, and ongoing operations can contribute greatly to curiosity-driven research, but research that is decentralized and organized predominately in a principal investigator mode cannot produce the extensive regular and systematic products demanded by society. It can, however, design and help develop these products.
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The process should be ongoing and cyclic and should involve focused parts of the research community in every phase of the cycle. It should have centralized parts in order to accomplish its operational mandate and may have a degree of decentralization for the research functions (consistent with need to run on high-end computers)
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for better defining climate processes, and the Centers would gain the expertise and perhaps manpower to run the extensive tests needed to find out if new parameterizations improve the model. One of the absolutely necessary functions of the Centers' interaction with the research community is enabling and facilitating the arduous process that takes researchers from the analysis of data from the synoptic network or from field programs to the development of improved parameterization schemes for use in climate models.
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We do not mean to imply that the entire climate research community should be engaged with climate operations this would be neither practical nor desirable. But the benefits to be gained from having climate research interacting with climate operations would stimulate research and enrich operations to an extent that the benefits of interaction would be hard to overlook.
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