Fourth Study Conference on BALTEX Scala Cinema Gudhjem

eference site archive (Cabauw, Netherlands; Lindenberg,
Germany; Norunda, Sweden; Sodankylä, Finland) and all
NWP analyses are archived and disseminated by the
World Data Centre for Climate in Hamburg, located at
the German Climate Computing Centre (DKRZ). It is for
the first time that NWP centres are delivering their
analysis into an ICSU WDC for free access by the
scientific community. I would like to call on the climate
modelling community, also within BALTEX, to take the
chance, e.g. for a model performance test, by using
analyses from the best NWP centres in the world to
answer their research questions.
The next meeting of the Scientific Steering Committee
for CEOP in spring 2005 will decide whether and how a
phase II of CEOP will be able to harvest what the major
goals have been. Firstly to improve climate anomaly
predictions by adding the contribution residing in the
water storage capacity of soils, and secondly, to transfer
coupled atmosphere/land-models to large basins outside
the CSEs of GEWEX.
As CEOP has been accepted by the Integrated Observing
Strategy Partnership (IGOS-P, a consortium stimulated
by space agencies and embracing UN institutions and
Global Change Research Programmes) as the pilot
experiment of its water theme, also a path for a smooth
transition from CEOP Phase II to the planned large
Climate Observation and Prediction Experiment (COPE)
of WCRP has to be found. The stimulators of CEOP did
not envisage that their initiative has built the bridges to
large global endeavors.
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