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... a.. 10418 • I NATIONAL ACADEMY PRESS Washington, D.C.
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... Shine is president of the Institute of Medicine. The National Research Council was organized by the National Academy of Sciences in 1916 to associate the broad community of science and technology with the Academy's purposes of furthering knowledge and advising the federal government.
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... HARTMANN, University of Washington ROBERT A KNOX, Scripps Institution of Oceanography ANTS LEETMAA, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ROGER LUKAS, University of Hawaii STEPHEN E
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... , Pennsylvania State University (, I BYRON BOVILLE, National Center for Atmospheric Research KIRK BRYAN, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration GEORGE F CARRIER, Harvard University ROBERT D
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... RASMUSSON, University of Maryland JOANNE SIMPSON, Goddard Space Flight Center GRAEME L STEPHENS, Colorado State University Ex Officio Members ERIC J
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... WHITE, Battelle Pacific Northwest Laboratories Staff STEPHEN RATTIEN, Executive Director STEPHEN D PARKER, Associate Executive Director MORGAN GOPNIK, Assistant Executive Director JEANETTE SPOON, Administrative Officer SANDRA FITZPATRICK, Administrative Associate ROBIN LEWIS ALLEN, Administrative Assistant vi
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... Until the time of his death, Stan pursued the establishment of the TOGA TAO array with energy, determination, high scientific standards, and reasoned discussion with his peers. In this endeavor he set a fine example to us all and to future generations of scientists who would make fundamental longterm observations of the climate system.
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... to gain a description of the tropical oceans and the global atmosphere as a time-dependent system in order to determine the extent to which this system is predictable on time scales of months to years and to understand the processes underlying its predictability, 2. to study the feasibility of modeling the coupled ocean-atmosphere system for the purposes of predicting its variations on time scales of months to years, and 3.
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... The standard atmospheric observing system was also recognized to be the best available system for initializing models of the atmosphere. But how to go from an array of ocean measurements conceived, funded, and deployed in a research mode to an operational system funded on a regular basis, deployed regularly in a multinational mode, with data available in real time to all was a question that had never really been posed, much less answered.
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