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should be in compliance with regulations of major international relevant organisations such as
WMO, 7 ECOMET 8 ,and the EU directives,
• to undertake appropriate action for the implementation and continuous monitoring of the
BALTEX data policy,
• to establish and maintain an inventory of BALTEX data requirements for BALTEX research,
• to facilitate the access to data for BALTEX researchers by
o getting the BALTEX data policy known and accepted by data owners,
o establishing and maintaining an inventory of available and new data archives and data
sources,
o developing ideas for specific data sets;
o monitoring the performance of the BALTEX Data Centres,
• to develop and draft a BALTEX Data Management Plan, as a detailed extension to the
BALTEX Phase II Implementation Plan, to be finally approved by the BSSG, and
• to initiate the establishment of and continuously review a BALTEX data management WWW
website, preferably linked to the BALTEX “homepage” on WWW. This website is expected
to inform on relevant data management issues for BALTEX data providers, BALTEX Data
Centres and archives, as well as BALTEX data users.
For further details on BALTEX data management see Chapter 8.
9.3. Working Group on Radar
The BALTEX Working Group on Radar is successfully in place since beginning of the BALTEX
programme. See Annex II for the group´s present membership. Its terms of reference are:
• To establish and maintain a structure for the exchange of radar data (not necessarily in real
time), covering the BALTEX region, by proposing (i) the type of products to be exchanged
and the priorities for their implementation, considering the needs for research in Meteorology,
Hydrology and Oceanography, and (ii) exchange formats for the radar data in the BALTEX
region,
• to maintain an inventory of radars installed in the BALTEX region and recommend ways to
extend the radar coverage over the entire BALTEX region in order to meet the scientific
objectives of BALTEX,
• to recommend radar related research and enhanced observation periods to meet the scientific
objectives of BALTEX,
• to regularly inform and advice the BALTEX SSG about ongoing developments and progress,
and
• to keep close contact with the other BALTEX working groups.
9.4. Working Group on Energy and Water Budgets
At the 18 th BSSG Meeting in Lindenberg, October 2005, the establishment of a new Working Group
on Water and Energy Budgets was decided. Terms of reference and membership still have to be
finalized. Given here is a general description of the scope of the new working group:
During BALTEX Phase I major effort was contributed to understand the physical processes
determining the water and energy budgets of the Baltic Sea and its drainage basin. Observations have
been analysed, unfortunately they are not continuous in space and time. In addition, two fully coupled
regional modelling systems simulating the water and the energy cycles have been developed, and
successfully validated against observations.
In BALTEX Phase II, these systems can now be utilized in several ways: they can recalculate the past
for example to determine the impact of the large scale circulation on the regional climate, or analyse
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