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2 Scientific Objectives and Basis of GOALS
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From page 7... ... Improvements in exploiting predictability are expected as a result of developing new models that incorporate the knowledge gained from diagnostic and empirical studies in regions outside the tropical Pacific Ocean region. In particular, incremental additions to seasonal-to-interannual climate prediction skills are anticipated from the study of variations of other major tropical heat sources and sinks (e.g., the monsoon systems, the western Pacific warm pool, and the tropical American land masses) Read the entire page →
From page 8... ... Progress towards this aim is expected to evolve on the basis of experimental prediction experience and by concerted efforts to produce better coupled ocean-atmosphereland models. The underlying physical principle that guides the modeling, empirical studies, process studies, and monitoring activities of GOALS is that water, in its various forms, provides thermal inertia and heat storage anomalies in the Earth's climate system and, through hydrological processes, defines the dominant interaction between components of the climate system. Read the entire page →

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... Improvements in exploiting predictability are expected as a result of developing new models that incorporate the knowledge gained from diagnostic and empirical studies in regions outside the tropical Pacific Ocean region. In particular, incremental additions to seasonal-to-interannual climate prediction skills are anticipated from the study of variations of other major tropical heat sources and sinks (e.g., the monsoon systems, the western Pacific warm pool, and the tropical American land masses)

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... Progress towards this aim is expected to evolve on the basis of experimental prediction experience and by concerted efforts to produce better coupled ocean-atmosphereland models. The underlying physical principle that guides the modeling, empirical studies, process studies, and monitoring activities of GOALS is that water, in its various forms, provides thermal inertia and heat storage anomalies in the Earth's climate system and, through hydrological processes, defines the dominant interaction between components of the climate system.

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2 Scientific Objectives and Basis of GOALS Pages 7-8

2 Scientific Objectives and Basis of GOALS
Pages 7-8