Workshop on
Advances in the Use of Historical Marine Climate Data (MARCDAT-I)
29
January-1 February 2002
Boulder,
Colorado, USA
Organized
by NOAA, Met Office and Japan Meteorological Agency
Sponsored
by the Global Climate Observing System (GCOS) and the World Meteorological
Organization
Photo
caption: Abstract log of the US Frigate
Constitution, 1854-1855. Naval Observatory volume #345; Deutscher
Wetterdienst Registration #8148.
Reprinted from Braun, D.S., 2000: Scientific vision, a passion for
observation, and the impetus for change: Germany loans Maury logs to the
National Climatic Data Center. Earth System Monitor, 11, No. 1, 4-7.
Organizers:
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Henry
Diaz |
NOAA/CDC |
USA |
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Chris
Folland |
Hadley
Centre, Met Office |
UK |
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Teruko
Manabe |
Ocean
Affairs Division |
WMO |
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David
Parker |
Hadley
Centre, Met Office |
UK |
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Dick
Reynolds |
NOAA/NCDC |
USA |
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Scott
Woodruff |
NOAA/CDC |
USA |
Scope and purpose of workshop: A workshop to build on the blend of the US
Comprehensive Ocean-Atmosphere Data Set (COADS), with the UK Met. Office Main
Marine Data Bank (MDB), plus with newly digitized data in the US and from other
international partners. The blend,
encompassing 1784-1997, will provide the climate research community with an
unprecedented assembly of in situ
marine data. Sea surface temperature
(SST) measurements will be an important topic.
A key focus of the meeting will be on the work of the SST and Sea-Ice
Working Group (SST/SI WG) of the GCOS/WCRP Atmospheric Observation and Ocean
Observations Panels for Climate (AOPC/OOPC), as well as new NOAA initiatives in
the SST area. After SST, other crucial
climate variables are to be considered (in priority order):
*
sea ice concentration and extent
*
nighttime and daytime marine air temperature (MAT)
*
sea level pressure
*
wind
The
discussions of sea level pressure and wind data will be coordinated with the
Mean Sea Level Pressure Working Group recently set up through the GCOS/WCRP
AOPC.
Main goals:
•
Create a timetable for enhancing in situ marine datasets in more than one
phase, taking account of plans for further digitization of data.
•
Develop a strategy for creating
alternative SST, sea-ice and marine air temperature analyses, including
appropriate satellite data, to test models against the legitimate uncertainties
in "reasonable" alternative analysis methods.
•
Consider strategies for the joint
analysis of surface pressure and wind data, taking account of time-varying
biases in the wind data.
•
Make recommendations for blending
appropriate marine and land-based data to achieve globally complete surface
data sets.
•
Take account of recommendations made by
the CLIVAR Climate of the Twentieth Century Project, where a key component
involves AGCMs being forced with observed SST and sea-ice extent by around 11
groups.
Participants:
Members of the SST/SI WG, plus research groups active in the assembly and
processing of historical marine data, and of products for SST/SI and other
variables (by invitation).
Reprints: summarizing the workshop results and recommendations:
Article for the WMO Bulletin, October issue (pdf file here)
Article for CLIVAR Exchanges, September issue (pdf file here).
Timetable
Title in
blue
indicates abstract available (pdf file here)
Name in
blue links
to pdf file of presentation
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Tuesday, January
29th |
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0845 |
Welcoming Remarks (5min) |
Randy Dole |
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0850 |
Workshop Goals (15min) |
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0905 |
Logistics and Other Remarks (5min) |
Henry Diaz |
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Session 1: Historical Marine Data Sets |
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0910 |
Overview of the
International Marine Observational Archive and COADS (25min) |
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0935 |
The Kobe Collection
(20min) |
Yasuhiro Minamoto |
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0955 |
Marine Data Sets from the
UK (25min) |
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1020 |
The German Historical
Marine Archive (15min) |
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1035 |
Climatological Database
for the World's Oceans 1750-1850 (CLIWOC) (15min) |
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1050 |
Coffee (20min) |
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1110 |
World Ocean Database 2001
(25min) |
Cathy Stephens |
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1135 |
The Research Vessel
Surface Meteorology Data Center Archive (25min) |
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1200 |
Data Access to Marine
Surface Observations and Products from COADS (25min) |
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1225 |
Access to Marine Data Sets
Over the Web—Requirements to Support Research Users (25min) |
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1250 |
The VOSClim Project and
the WMO Ship Catalog (WMO-No.47) (15min) |
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1305 |
Lunch (80min) |
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Session 2: Sea Surface Temperature and Sea Ice |
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1425 |
Bias Adjustments to
Historical SST (25min) |
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1450 |
Bias Adjustments, Quality
Control, and Analyses of Historic SST (25min) |
Tom Smith |
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1515 |
Improvement of Trimming in
COADS (25min) |
Xiao-Wei Quan |
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1540 |
An Integrated Approach to
the Production of an Optimal High Resolution Sea Surface Temperature Analysis
(25min) |
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1605 |
Tea/Coffee (20min) |
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1625 |
Sea Ice Data: A Review
(25min) |
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1650 |
Sea Ice Data Sets
Available within the WMO GDSIDB Project and Future Candidates (25min) |
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1715 |
General discussion (15min) |
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1730 |
Adjourn (30min) |
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1800-1930 |
Reception/Ice Breaker |
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Wednesday, January
30th |
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0845 |
Creating the HadSST
Gridded in situ SST Analysis
(25min) |
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0910 |
JMA Gridded SST Analysis
(25min) |
Yasuhiro Minamoto |
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0935 |
SST Analysis by
Temperature Class (25min) |
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1000 |
Construction and Testing
of the Globally Complete HadISST1 Data Set (25min) |
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1025 |
High Resolution Objective
Analysis of Historical SSTs: Small-scale, Long-term, and Sea-ice aspects
(25min) |
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1050 |
Coffee (20min) |
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1110 |
Validating Satellite
Infrared Sea Surface Temperatures with In Situ VOS Data (20min) |
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1130 |
An Improved In Situ and
Satellite SST Analysis for Climate (25min) |
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1155 |
Summary of Results from
High-Resolution SST Workshop (25min) |
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1220 |
Advances in Microwave Sea
Surface Temperature (25min) |
Andy Harris for: Chelle Gentemann |
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1245 |
Lunch (75min) |
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1400 |
Towards Improved
Validation of Satellite Sea Surface Skin Temperature Measurements for Climate
Research (20min) |
Andy Harris for: Chelle Gentemann |
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1420 |
SST, Marine Air and
Tropospheric Temperatures (20min) |
John Christy |
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Session 3: Marine Air Temperature |
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1440 |
Construction and Testing
of the HadMAT Gridded Night Marine Air Temperature Analysis (25min) |
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1505 |
Assessing Biases in Recent
in situ SST and Marine Air
Temperature (25min) |
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1530 |
Tea/Coffee (20min) |
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Session 4: Sea level pressure and wind |
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1550 |
Plans for the AOPC Mean
Sea Level Pressure Working Group (20min) |
David Parker for: Rob Allan |
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1610 |
The Hadley Centre Mean Sea
Level Pressure HadSLP Data Set (20min) |
Rob Allan and David Parker |
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1630 |
The FSU Wind Fields
(20min) |
Jim O'Brien |
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1650 |
New Objective FSU Wind and
Flux Climatologies (20min) |
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1710 |
Special section: Recognition of Joe
Fletcher's contributions to the marine surface record (20min) |
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1730 |
Adjourn |
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Thursday, January
31st |
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0845 |
Historical Analysis of
Marine Sea Level Pressure and Wind Components: The Good, the Bad, and the
Ugly (20min) |
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0905 |
Feasibility of Reanalysis
Before the Radiosonde Era (20min) |
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0925 |
Hindcasting Winds and
Waves Using Kinematic Analysis (20min) |
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Session 5: Additional presentations |
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0945 |
On the Pacific Ocean
Regime Shift (15min) |
Cathy Stephens |
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1000 |
Temporal Variability in
Satellite and Analysis SST Data (15min) |
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1015 |
The Instrumental Record of
ENSO Variability: 1840s to Present (15min)
and Negative COADS 1c Sea-level Pressure Anomalies in the 1850s |
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1030 |
Coffee (20min) |
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Breakout sessions |
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1050 |
Organization and initial gathering of
breakout sessions (100min) |
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1230 |
Lunch (90min) |
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1400 |
Breakout sessions (continued) (120min) |
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1600 |
Tea/Coffee (20min) |
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1620 |
Breakout sessions (continued) (40min) |
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1700 |
Initial reports from breakout
sessions (60min) |
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1800 |
Adjourn |
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Friday, February 1st
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0845 |
Breakout sessions (continued) (60min) |
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Concluding plenary session |
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0945 |
Written reports from breakout
sessions (45min) |
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1030 |
Coffee (20min) |
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1050 |
Completion of written reports from
breakout groups (70min) |
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1200 |
Future plans (30min) |
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1230 |
Workshop closes |
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Breakout sessions:
SST, air
temperature and sea ice
(Chair: Chris
Folland; Rapporteur: Dick Reynolds)
Mean sea
level pressure and wind
(Chair: David
Parker; Rapporteur: Val Swail)
Technical
requirements
(Chair and
Rapporteur: Steve Worley)
Contact points for further information:
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Scott Woodruff |
David Parker |
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Climate Diagnostics Center |
Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction
and Research |
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NOAA/OAR (R/CDC1) |
Met Office |
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325 Broadway |
London Road, Bracknell |
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Boulder, CO 80305 USA |
Berkshire RG12 2SY UK |
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Phone:
+1-303-497-6747 |
Phone:
+44-1344-85-6649 |
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Fax: +1-303-497-7013 |
Fax: +44-1344-85-4898 |
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e-mail:
sdw@cdc.noaa.gov |
e-mail:
david.parker@metoffice.com |
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http://www.cdc.noaa.gov/ |
http://www.metoffice.com/ |
Annex 1: Acronyms
and Other Abbreviations
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AARI |
Arctic and Antarctic Research
Institute, St. Petersburg/Russia |
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AES |
Atmospheric Environment
Service/Canada |
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AGCM |
Atmospheric General Circulation Model |
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AOPC |
Atmospheric Observation Panel for
Climate |
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CCAR |
Colorado Center for Astrodynamics
Research |
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CDC |
Climate Diagnostics Center/NOAA |
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CLIVAR |
Climate Variability and
Predictability Programme |
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CLIWOC |
Climatological Database for the
World's Oceans 1750-1850 |
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COADS |
Comprehensive Ocean-Atmosphere Data
Set |
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COAPS |
Center for Ocean-Atmospheric
Prediction Studies/FSU |
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DWD |
Deutscher Wetterdienst |
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ETL |
Environmental Technology
Laboratory/NOAA |
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FSU |
Florida State University |
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GCOS |
Global Climate Observing System |
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GDSIDB |
Global Digital Sea Ice Data Bank |
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IOC |
Intergovernmental Oceanographic
Commission |
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JCOMM |
Joint WMO/IOC Technical Commission
for Oceanography and Marine Meteorology |
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JISAO |
Joint Institute for the Study of the
Atmosphere and Ocean |
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JMA |
Japan Meteorological Agency |
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JPL |
Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA |
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Met Office |
UK Meteorological Office |
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MAT |
Marine Air Temperature |
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MDB |
UK Marine Data Bank |
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NASA |
US National Aeronautics and Space
Administration |
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NCAR |
US National Center for Atmospheric
Research |
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NCDC |
National Climatic Data Center/NOAA |
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NOAA |
US National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration |
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NODC |
National Oceanographic Data
Center/NOAA |
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NSIDC |
US National Snow and Ice Data Center |
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NWS |
National Weather Service/NOAA |
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OOPC |
Ocean Observations Panel for Climate |
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SI |
Sea Ice |
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SST |
Sea Surface Temperature |
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WCRP |
World Climate Research Programme |
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WMO |
World Meteorological Organization |
Annex 2. List
of Participants
Note: There were 39
participants; 3 cancellations appear in blue
Link to pdf Address
List here
Key:
Org Member
of Organizing Committee
^^ Chair
of GCOS/WCRP AOPC/OOPC SST/Sea-Ice Working Group
^ Member
of GCOS/WCRP AOPC/OOPC SST/Sea-Ice Working Group
** Co-convenor
of GCOS/WCRP AOPC Surface Pressure Working Group
* Member
of GCOS/WCRP AOPC Surface Pressure Working Group
## Chair
of JCOMM Expert Team on Marine Climatology
# Member
of JCOMM Expert Team on Marine Climatology
% Chair
of JCOMM Expert Team on Wind Waves and Storm Surges
+ Chair
of JCOMM Expert Team on Sea Ice
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Rob Allan** |
Hadley Centre, Met Office |
rob.allan@metoffice.com |
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Ed
Armstrong |
NASA/JPL |
ed@seastore.jpl.nasa.gov |
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David
Berry |
Southampton
Oceanography Centre |
dyb@soc.soton.ac.uk |
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Mark
Bourassa |
COAPS/FSU |
bourassa@coaps.fsu.edu |
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Kenneth
Casey |
NOAA/NODC |
Kenneth.Casey@noaa.gov |
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John
Christy |
Univ.
Alabama |
christy@atmos.uah.edu |
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Gilbert
Compo* |
NOAA/CDC |
gpc@cdc.noaa.gov |
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Henry
Diaz (Org) |
NOAA/CDC |
hfd@cdc.noaa.gov |
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Randy
Dole |
NOAA/CDC |
rmd@cdc.noaa.gov |
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Bill
Emery^ |
University
of Colorado |
emery@orbit.colorado.edu |
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Joe Fletcher |
(Sequim, Washington) |
fletcher@olypen.com |
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Chris
Folland (Org) |
Hadley
Centre, Met Office |
chris.folland@metoffice.com |
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Chelle Gentemann |
Remote Sensing Systems |
gentemann@remss.com |
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Andy
Harris |
NOAA/NESDIS
|
Andy.Harris@noaa.gov |
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Jim
Hurrell^ |
NCAR |
jhurrell@ucar.edu |
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Roy Jenne |
NCAR |
jenne@ucar.edu |
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Alexey
Kaplan^ |
Lamont-Doherty |
alexeyk@ldeo.columbia.edu |
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Elizabeth
Kent^ |
Southampton
Oceanography Centre |
Elizabeth.C.Kent@soc.soton.ac.uk |
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Sandy
Lubker |
NOAA/CDC |
sjl@cdc.noaa.gov |
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Teruko
Manabe (Org) |
WMO/Ocean
Affairs Div. |
manabe_t@gateway.wmo.ch |
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Jim
Maslanik^ |
NSIDC
and CCAR |
james.maslanik@colorado.edu |
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Mirek
Mietus## |
Inst.
Met. & Water Mgmt., Poland |
mietus@imgw.gdynia.pl |
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Yasuhiro
Minamoto |
Japan
Met. Agency |
minamoto@met.kishou.go.jp |
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Todd
Mitchell |
JISAO/University
of Washington |
mitchell@atmos.washington.edu |
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Jim
O'Brien |
COAPS/FSU |
obrien@coaps.fsu.edu |
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David
Parker (Org) |
Hadley
Centre, Met Office |
david.parker@metoffice.com |
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Xiao-Wei Quan^ |
NOAA/CDC |
qxw@cdc.noaa.gov |
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Nick
Rayner^ |
Hadley
Centre, Met Office |
nick.rayner@metoffice.com |
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Dick
Reynolds^^ (Org) |
NOAA/NCDC |
Richard.W.Reynolds@noaa.gov |
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Roland
Schweitzer |
NOAA/CDC |
rhs@cdc.noaa.gov |
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Shawn
Smith |
COAPS/FSU |
SMITH@coaps.fsu.edu |
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Tom
Smith |
NOAA/NCDC |
Tom.Smith@noaa.gov |
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Vasily
Smolianitsky+ |
AARI,
St. Petersburg |
vms@aari.nw.ru |
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Cathy
Stephens |
NOAA/NODC |
cstephens@nodc.noaa.gov |
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Val
Swail% |
AES,
Canada |
Val.Swail@ec.gc.ca |
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Simon
Tett |
Hadley
Centre, Met Office |
simon.tett@metoffice.com |
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Jorge Vazquez-Cuervo^ |
NASA/JPL |
jorge.vazquez@jpl.nasa.gov |
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Volker
Wagner |
DWD |
volker.wagner@dwd.de |
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Gary
Wick^ |
NOAA/ETL |
Gary.A.Wick@noaa.gov |
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Klaus
Wolter |
NOAA/CDC |
kew@cdc.noaa.gov |
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Scott
Woodruff^*# (Org) |
NOAA/CDC |
sdw@cdc.noaa.gov |
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Steve
Worley |
NCAR |
worley@ucar.edu |