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A Scientific Strategy for U.S. Participation in the GOALS (Global Ocean-Atmosphere-Land System) Component of the CLIVAR (Climate Variability and Predictability) Programme (1998) / Chapter Skim
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7 Process Studies
Pages 31-35

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... Usually, process studies employ an ensemble of techniques involving observations, empirical studies, and modeling to further the understanding of a process or processes. They may be in the form of experiments designed to test particular hypotheses or exploratory efforts to gather statistical information on specific processes or phenomena for use in developing and refining theoretical, mathematical, or conceptual constructions of the dynamics of various interactions between Earth system sub-components.
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From page 32...
... Combined process studies can provide a multivariate data set that has the critical mass needed to evaluate coupled model and satellite products. Such field programs can provide a facilitating framework for interdisciplinary studies, as well as a better context and supporting information than single process studies.
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From page 33...
... However, under the auspices of the PACS program, a number of process studies in the eastern Pacific Ocean dealing with oceanatmosphere interaction, precipitation processes, and the equatorial boundary layer are already funded and currently under way. Ocean cruises took place in Spring 1997 to study the local modification of the equatorial ocean cold-tongue during the evolution of E1 Nino.
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From page 34...
... In order to improve the understanding of Atlantic modes of variability, NOAA, together with international partners, is expanding ocean/atmosphere observations into the tropical Atlantic in pilot mode. The Atlantic observing system is built from the same proven technologies used in the ENSO observing system, namely, deep ocean moorings (e.g., PIRATA)
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... The panel recommends that GOALS process experiments should be coordinated either with GEWEX process studies, such as GAME and the GEWEX Continental-Scale International Project (GCIP) , or with DecCen process studies.
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