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'PANEL'S PURPOSE AND BACKGROUND'
Pages 25-28

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From page 26...
... Appropriate Scales We were asked to consider "appropriate space and time scales" and to build "upon the observational programs utilized in support of the Tropical Ocean and Global Atmosphere (TOGA) program." The first TOGA scientific objective (World Climate Research ProgrammelfOGA Scientific Steering Group, 1985)
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From page 27...
... The panel has retained this focus as its working definition of a vertically "appropriate scale." Nothing in TOGA research to date suggests that the deep ocean plays a first-order role in climate fluctuations of either the atmosphere or the upper ocean on the seasonal to interannual scale, although it is undoubtedly important in climate variations of longer periods. Discerning and then predicting changes in the deep ocean on a variety of long time scales are certainly important scientific and longer-term prediction problems, but they are ones that generally lie outside "appropriate scales" in the present context.
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From page 28...
... It is true that several TOGA data streams are not currently incorporated into experimental or quasi-operational predictions. It is far less clear that they need not be or never will be, and indeed some of the strongest advocacy for extending one such data stream (the TOGA Tropical Atmosphere Ocean array)
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