OOPC Projects

Members of the panel participate in several working groups assigned particular tasks. These are:

• The Working Group on Air-Sea Fluxes. The main goals of the Joint JSC/SCOR Working Group on Air Sea Fluxes were to review the requirements of different scientific disciplines for surface flux data sets, to catalogue available surface flux data and flux-related data sets, and to review the strengths and weaknesses of each.   more (external link) »
  
• The Surface Flux Analysis Project (SURFA), an initiative of the WCRP Working Group on Numerical Experimentation, is a project to institutionalize the evaluation of near real-time Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) fluxes (and related fields) with high quality reference data.
  
• The Working Group on SST and Sea Ice (joint with GCOS Atmosphere Observations Panel for Climate, AOPC). The Terms of Reference for this group are to record and evaluate the differences among historical and near-real-time SST and SST/SI analyses; identify the sources of differences in the analyses; on the basis of comparison of those differences with the expected climate signals in the SST patterns, recommend actions needed to ensure the quality and consistency of the SST and SST/SI analyses; establish criteria to be satisfied by SST and SST/SI analyses to ensure the quality and consistency required by GCOS; and report annually to AOPC and OOPC on progress and recommendations. more on the Sea Ice subgroup (external link) »