Collection Citation
| Collection Title | VOCALS: The VAMOS Ocean-Cloud-Atmosphere-Land Study | ||
| Collection Creator/PI | Wood, Robert (VOCALS-REx PI, University of Washington); Bretherton, Christopher (GEWEX/GCSS Representative, University of Washington); Huebert, Barry (SOLAS Representative, University of Hawaii); Mechoso, Roberto C. (VOCALS Science Working Group Chair, UCLA); Weller, Robert (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) | ||
| Collection Sponsor | USDOE | ||
| Other Sponsors | National Science Foundation (NSF); National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA); Office of Naval Research (ONR); National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) | ||
| Host Website | NCAR Earth Observing Laboratory | ||
| Other Related Organizations | University of Washington; University of Chile | ||
| Main Content Type | Computer Models/Simulations; Numeric Files/Datasets | ||
| Subject Categories | 54 - ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES | ||
| Keywords | Oceans; Clouds; Atmosphere; VAMOS; CLIVAR; GEWEX; Southeast Pacific; Chile | ||
| Description | VOCALS (VAMOS* Ocean-Cloud-Atmosphere-Land Study) is an international CLIVAR program the major goal of which is to develop and promote scientific activities leading to improved understanding of the Southeast Pacific (SEP) coupled ocean-atmosphere-land system on diurnal to inter-annual timescales. The principal program objectives are: 1) the improved understanding and regional/global model representation of aerosol indirect effects over the SEP; 2) the elimination of systematic errors in the region of coupled atmospheric-ocean general circulation models, and improved model simulations and predictions of the coupled climate in the SEP and global impacts of the system variability. VOCALS is organized into two tightly coordinated components: 1) a Regional Experiment (VOCALSREx), and 2) a Modeling Program (VOCALS-Mod). Extended observations (e.g. IMET buoy, satellites, EPIC/PACS cruises) will provide important additional contextual datasets that help to link the field and the modeling components. The coordination through VOCALS of observational and modeling efforts (Fig. 3) will accelerate the rate at which field data can be used to improve simulations and predictions of the tropical climate variability.[Copied from the Vocals Program Summary of June 2007, available as a link from the VOCALS web at http://www.eol.ucar.edu/projects/vocals/] The CLIVAR sponsored program to under which VOCALS falls is VAMOS, which stands for Variability of the American Monsoon Systems. | ||
| DDE Number | DDE00317 | ||
| Special Interface | No | ||
| Registration_Required | No |
