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The program outlined in this prospectus extends the GCIP approach to other climate regions of the USA and also shifts the program focus from analysis to prediction in order to better position the science community to achieve the GCIP mission. To bridge the gap between the current understanding and capabilities of the climate community, and the requirements for a prediction capability that fully incorporates the controls of land surfaces on the climate system, appropriate components of the atmospheric and hydrologic research communities will develop science and implementation plans for the GEWEX America Prediction Project (GAPP)
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2 NASA is currently in the process of drafting a plan for its future Global Water and Energy Cycle research activities. 3 NSF's Geosciences Directorate is in the process of creating a long-range plan for its activities through 2010, termed GEO-2000.
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"The National Water Initiative aims to meet grand challenges facing the nation's water resources in the 21St Century, increase the nation's adaptability in the face of greater pressure on these resources, and equip citizens and decision-makers with the knowledge necessary to protect, sustain, and manage the nation's waters as vital national assets. The Initiative also aims to contribute to the global base of knowledge increasingly needed for sustainable water management systems worldwide in a variety of landscapes arid social, cultural, and economic conditions...The nation's waters~oastal and estuarine, rivers, lakes, and ground water are essential and priceless national assets.
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National Academy Press, Washington, D.C., 22 pp. This report states that: "There is no interagency mechanism within the United States to ensure that this type of coupling [between GEWEX and CLIVAR]
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This understanding will be achieved through a combination of observations, modeling, and analysis at a range of spatial and temporal scales, and will provide the foundation for understanding the relationship between weather and climate....An important element of the research program is a quantitative assessment of the improved understanding for weather prediction and for water and environmental management. In addition, advances in understanding the relationships between hydrologic processes and climate will lead directly to better inferences regarding climate change and its subsequent hydrologic impacts at regional-to-global scales." 7 International GEWEX Project Office (IGPO)
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. 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.
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This crosscutting initiative can clearly build upon the progress made by the Global Water and Energy Cycle Experiment (GEWEX) in the World Climate Research Program and the Biospheric Aspects of the Hydrological Cycle (BAHC)
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Applying the methodologies and technical facilities developed for GCIP to a study of the Colorado River basin and surrounding mountain regions is a challenge for the future." The impressive foundation for water and energy cycle research that has been built in the United States by GCIP is outlined in the Executive Summary of the NRC GCIP Report and described in more detail at the end of each of the report's chapters. Objectives of the GEWEX Program: Determine the hydrological cycle and energy fluxes by means of global measurements of atmospheric and surface properties.
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National Academy Press, Washington, D.C., 51 pp. Climate monitoring principle #7: "...Give the highest priority in the design and implementation of new sites or instrumentation within an observing system to data-poor regions, poorly observed variables, regions sensitive to change, and key measurements with inadequate temporal resolution..." ]
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