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5 Concluding Thoughts forecasts.
Pages 28-30

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... The participants identified several likely contributors to this situation: · Widely available, easily run models and the current funding and academic environments may be turning both graduate students and their faculty advisors toward fast-turnaround research in numerical simulation and away from the traditional but much slower path of theory and observation. · Bright young scholars best suited to tackling scientific problems may incorrectly perceive that the atmospheric and oceanic sciences are an applied field whose goal is merely to improve weather and climate forecasts.
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... The parameterization problemwhich could be defined as the identification and understanding of the physics of unresolved processes and the compact, optimal representation of this physics in numerical modelsdeserves serious attention from the best and brightest. This report summarizes the discussions of the workshop participants on parameterization approaches and frameworks and on specific targets for parameterization improvement.
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... · More extensive and rigorous comparisons of models with observations and field experiments designed to support such comparisons are needed. · The cultural issues thought by the workshop participants to be limiting progress in model development might not be self-correcting; they could require the institutional adjustments that are occasionally but necessarily made as society and the atmospheric and oceanic sciences respond to changing conditions.
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