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The GEWEX Global Water Vapor Project (GVaP)--U.S. Opportunities (1999) / Chapter Skim
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U.S. Opportunities
Pages 13-15

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... believes that the operational centers would accrue similar benefits were they to be linked to GVaP through the Central Facility. This goal could be accomplished by including an Operational Weather Analyses and Data Center on equal footing with the other Centers in the Implementation Plan's Data Development Procedure.
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From page 14...
... Agency support for research outside the GVaP data development structure needs to be part of an overall GVaP effort, and the activities of individual investigators need to be properly considered by GVaP. The first step in advancing understanding of water vapor and its role in the climate system is to obtain an accurate quantitative description of the variations of water vapor in space and time; several global data sets already exist, but, as alluded to at the outset, their quality is less than desirable.
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From page 15...
... GVaP effort recognize the importance of combining water vapor observations with other data to understand the complete water exchange process. For example, a close association between GVaP and the GEWEX Cloud System Study will help advance understanding of cloud-water vapor interactions.
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Key Terms

  • vapor measurements
  • vapor data
  • implementation plan
  • global data
  • lower troposphere

  • analysis techniques
  • quantitative description
  • sensing include
  • temporal resolution
  • center focused

  • improve accuracy
  • sampling strategies
  • vapor interactions
  • vapor observations
  • ongoing calibration

  • water exchange
  • gvap effort
  • hydrologic research
  • civilian operational
  • ocean surface

  • stratosphere region
  • structuring gvap
  • reference radiosondes
  • international satellite
  • cloud climatology

  • water transport
  • increase vertical
  • exchange process
  • detailed water
  • current activities


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