Organizing U.S. Participation in GOALS (1995) / Chapter Skim
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. The specific scientific objectives of GOALS are to: understand global climate variability on seasonal-to-interannual time scales; determine the spatial and temporal extent to which this variability is predictable; develop the observational, theoretical, and computational means to predict this variability; and, make enhanced climate predictions on seasonal-to-interannual time scales.
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One of the more important aspects of that strategy is the development of an infrastructure that will promote: cross-disciplinary interaction among scientists involved in the various research activities that are necessary for improving the prediction of seasonal-to-interannual climate variations; coordination and interaction among agencies, and among the atmospheric, oceanic, and hydrological divisions of agencies; coordination between the U.S. national GOALS effort and the international CLIVAR/GOALS program; efficient allocation of resources by coordination among GOALS and other climate related programs (e.g., GEWEX EGIobal Energy and Water Cycle Experiment]
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The TOGA Program developed a tripartite management structure with an advisory mechanism, a project of lice, and a resource group. (This description of the institutional arrangements from TOGA has been developed from communication between the TOGA and GOALS Panels; from a draft of the TOGA Panel's final report, now in preparation; and from the 1986 NRC report U.S.
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Some of the working groups will address broad themes requiring coordination efforts; others will develop at the initiation of scientists involved in GOALS. The working groups would be comprised of academic, government, and private sector scientists participating directly in GOALS or other activities related to seasonal-to-interannual climate prediction.
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As the NRC noted in its science plan for GOALS, "Even modest improvements in climate prediction at seasonal-to-interannual time scales would be of great social and economic benefit." it further noted that the recently completed TOGA Program has (remonstrated "a new capability of making tropical climate predictions a year or so in advance." The GOALS Program will provide the research needed to develop that capability for making seasonal-to-interannual climate predictions, especially at the higher latitudes that include the United States.
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GOALS Project Office and involved agencies on behalf of the Climate Research Committee (CRC)
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Global Change Research Program USGS U.S. Geological Survey USN U.S.
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