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1 Introduction
1 Introduction
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To help meet this objective, the CCSP is producing a series of synthesis and assessment products that address its highest priority research, observation, and decisionsupport needs. The CCSP is conducting 21 such activities, covering topics such as the North American carbon budget and implications for the global carbon cycle, coastal elevation and sensitivity to sea-level rise, trends in emissions of ozone-depleting substances and ozone recovery and implications for ultraviolet radiation exposure, and use of observational and model data in decision support and decision making.
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By identifying key limitations of the current generation of reanalyses, the report will be useful to policymakers in identifying and understanding the causes for remaining uncertainties, and for climate program managers in developing priorities for future observing, modeling, and analysis systems required to advance national and international efforts to describe and attribute causes of observed climate variations and change. The assessment of the capabilities and limitations of current reanalysis products for different applications will also be of value to users of reanalysis products.
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SAP 1.3 is intended to provide a summary of the present level of scientific confidence and remaining uncertainties in identifying and describing how the climate system has varied over approximately the last half-century. The discussion of limitations of current reanalyses will provide valuable information for developing priorities for data recovery and quality control efforts and future requirements for improving models, data assimilation methods, and observing systems to reduce uncertainties and improve our ability to describe past and ongoing climate variability and change.
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7. What is the present understanding of the causes for North American climate trends in annual temperature and precipitation during the reanalysis record?
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