Pacific Sector Implementation Panel
last updated March 8, 2004

Name

Affiliation

Service Through

Clara Deser NCAR
2005

Ichiro Fukumori

JPL

2006

Mike Gregg

University of Washington

2005

William Kessler

NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory

2004

Nate Mantua

University of Washington

2006
Art Miller Scripps Institution of Oceanography
2004
Sumant Nigam (co-chair) University of Maryland
2006
Paul Robbins Scripps Institution of Oceanography
2004
Dan Rudnick (co-chair) Scripps Institution of Oceanography
2006

Niklas Schneider

University of Hawaii

2006

Max Suarez

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

2004

Terms of Reference


  1. Develop and advise the SSC on field, empirical and model studies in the respective sector needed to achieve the goals of CLIVAR.

  2. Suggest to the SSC appropriate mechanisms (e.g. community meetings, working groups, commissioned studies, etc.) to develop implementation plans for such studies.

  3. Coordinate with scientists in other nations to make efficient and effective the overall international plans for activities in the respective sector and integrate US plan with other national plans as appropriate. Suggest to the SSC formal international arrangements needed to achieve this coordination and integration.

  4. Develop first order estimate of resources needed, especially for field work, to meet high priority objectives of the implementation plans.

  5. Stand ready to advise the SSC on the relevance, importance and readiness of specific proposals and agency plans to implement CLIVAR studies.

  6. Review U.S. plans for climate observations, including operational observations by U.S. agencies, GCOS, GTOS and GOOS. Advise the SSC on the adequacy and effectiveness of these plans and their implementation.