Abstracts
SEARCH Open Science Meeting
October 27, 2003
Seattle, Washington, USA
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) SEARCH Initiative
John Calder1, Jackie Richter-Menge2, Taneil Uttal3, Jim Overland4
1Arctic Research Office, NOAA , 1315 East West Highway, Silver Spring, MD, 20910-3282, USA, Phone 301-713-2518 ex, Fax 301-713-2519, John.Calder@noaa.gov
2CRREL, 72 Lyme Road, Hanover, NH, 03755, USA, Phone 603-646-4266, Fax 603-646-4644, Jacqueline.A.Richter-Menge@erdc.usace.army.mil
3Environmental Technology Laboratory, NOAA, 325 Broadway, Boulder, CO, 80305, USA, Phone 303-497-6409, Fax 303-497-6181, Taneil.Uttal@noaa,gov
4Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, NOAA, 7600 Sand Point Way NE, Seatt;le, WA, 98115-6349, USA, Phone 206-526-6795, Fax 206-526-6485
NOAA is one of eight federal agencies participating in the implementation of the SEARCH science plan. With a mission to understand and predict changes in the Earth’s environment, and conserve and manage coastal and marine resources to meet the Nation’s economic, social and environmental needs, NOAA has a particularly important role to play in SEARCH. Two of NOAA’s strongest attributes are established observation and modeling capabilities. The observational component includes acquisition and archiving of both regional and global-scale environmental data sets. The modeling component includes ingestion of these data into forecast and climate models for forecasting, hindcasting, and nowcasting.
NOAA has initiated its SEARCH program with seed activities that address high priority issues relating to the atmospheric and the cryosphere. The 3 primary foci of the current program include:
§ Establishing long-term radiation, cloud, and aerosol Arctic Atmospheric Observatories to improve detection of environmental Arctic change in the lower and upper atmosphere.
§ Initiation of a long-term, international program to document and attribute changes in ice thickness through direct measurements and modeling
§ Reanalysis of NOAA satellite data (TOVS radiances), surface observations (data rescue, acquisition, development of interdisciplinary climate indices) and model outputs (NCEP and Arctic WRF) and development of a near real-time Arctic Change Detection System.
Abstract Categories: Changes in the Atmosphere
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