Learning to Predict Climate Variations Associated with El Nino and the Southern Oscillation Accomplishments and Legacies of the TOGA Program (1996) / Chapter Skim
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5. ORGANIZATION
5. ORGANIZATION
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, the International TOGA Project Office received advice from the TOGA Scientific Steering Group and obtained resources through the Intergovernmental TOGA Board. The successes of the TOGA Program-especially in deploying and maintaining the TOGA Observing System, in fostering the expansion of shortterm climate prediction, in recognizing the connection between observing and 110
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The advice and review provided to the TOGA Project Office was provided by the NRC. The NRC relied on the efforts of its Advisory Panel for the TOGA Program (TOGA Panel)
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Although this report has largely taken an expansive view of the TOGA Program, an has included within the program domain almost all research efforts focused on ENSO or the prediction of seasonal-to-interannual climate variation, the formal designation of activities as part of the program was much more limited. If one takes this expansive view, then almost anyone who could provide for the NRC real expertise on seasonal-to-interannual climate variations was involved in the program.
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TOGA Project Office to take seriously the advice of the NRC, and the willingness of the TOGA Panel to take seriously the problems, opportunities, and funding limitations of the Project Office. NOAA program managers, more than most others, made an active effort to test their ideas in open discussion before the TOGA Panel to obtain an informal sense of the opinions of the research community on subjects for which consensus recommendations had not been prepared.
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Although the job was not in its task statement, the TOGA Panel took responsibility for: providing a forum for federal agencies to work together, and also for aiding the process by which agencies contributed to TOGA and obtained benefits from it, according to individual agency needs; · representing the larger TOGA community to the agencies and reporting back to that community any items of agency concern; presenting international problems to the agencies and to the TOGA Project Office and advising them on solutions; · proposing the creation of new structures to carry out the TOGA Program more successfully; and documenting the progress of the TOGA Program in reviewed NRC reports, so that the larger community could see and benefit from the advances of the program, and also so that, through the NRC review process, the program could have a broader base of review. The TOGA Panel also examined the merits of and then encouraged the execution of the large TOGA Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Response Experiment (COARE)
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were organized by the TOGA Project Office. The TOGA COARE SWG was formed as an advisory mechanism for the massive COARE field program.
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TOGA COARE SWG were to refine the scientific objectives, develop a research strategy, design the experimental approach, identify resource requirements (observing platforms, facilities, and other support) , examine mechanisms for implementing the experiment, make recommendations about the coordination of research proposals, and establish, in cooperation with the TOGA Scientific Steering Group (SSG)
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Resources were arranged by the Intergovernmental TOGA Board. The TOGA SSG served as the advisory body and the International TOGA Project Office organized the implementation (see Figure 15~.
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I TOGA Numerical TAO Experi mentation Im plementation COARE Panel Group Panel National TOGA Project Offices Figure 15. International organization for TOGA.
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As TOGA developed, the SSG ensured the exchange and analysis of TOGA data and the dissemination of scientific results. To provide overall scientific guidance for COARE, the TOGA SSG established the international TOGA COARE Panel, which worked closely with the U.S.
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In accordance with the TOGA Data Management Plan, which was an inte:,ral part of the International TOGA Implementation Plan, TOGA data centers were operated by European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasting, France, India, and the United Kingdom. These data centers worked in concert with the TOGA Global Sea Surface Temperature Data Center and TOGA SeaLevel Data Center established in the United States (at the Climate Analysis Center of the National Meteorological Center and the University of Hawaii, respectively)
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The TCIPO supported the ongoing planning for TOGA COARE and coordinated international implementation. The TCIPO worked with the TOGA COARE Panel for the purpose of preparing and then updating the international TOGA COARE Operations Plan (TCIPO 1992)
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At its final meeting in April 1993, following discussions initiated by U.S. representatives at previous meetings, the Intergovernmental TOGA Board noted the strong statements of support for and interest in directly participating in various aspects of an International Research Institute for Climate Prediction (IRICP)
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