Planning a Pacific Basin Extended Climate Study

摘要：该项目的负责人将与其他三位海洋学家和气象学家一起，在加利福尼亚州拉霍亚市组织一个为期2.5天的研讨会，目的是为太平洋盆地扩展气候研究（PBECS）研究项目制定详细的实施计划。该项目将综合运用观测、建模和数据同化等方法，研究决定太平洋上层水域热量和淡水收支以及海气热通量和水分通量的过程。进行这种研究的动机是需要确定和量化一些强烈影响全球气候的过程，例如，调节ENSO周期的时间和幅度的过程。PBECS项目将成为美国气候变率和可预测性项目（CLIVAR）的一部分。与会者将包括目前从事气候相关现象研究的众多顶尖海洋学家和气象学家。

ABSTRACTOCE-9911182The director of this project, together with three other oceanographers and meteorologists, will organize a 2.5 day workshop in La Jolla, California with the goal of working out a detailed implementation plan for the research program known as the Pacific Basin Extended Climate Study (PBECS). This program will use a mix of observational, modeling and data assimilation to examine processes that determine the heat and fresh water budgets in the upper waters of the Pacific together with air-sea heat and moisture fluxes. The motivation for such a study is the need to identify and quantify a number of processes that strongly affect the global climate, for example, processes that modulate the timing and amplitude of the ENSO cycle. The PBECS program will form part of the U.S. Climate Variability and Predictability Program (CLIVAR). Participants will include a variety of leading oceanographers and meteorologists currently working on climate-related phenomena.