Pan-American Sector Implementation Panel
last updated March 3, 2004

Name

Affiliation

Service Through

Hugo Berbery University of Maryland
2006
Shuyi Chen RSMAS/University of Miami
2005
Meghan Cronin (co-chair) NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory
2004
David Gutzler (co-chair) University of New Mexico
2005
Wayne Higgins CPC/NCEP/NWS/NOAA
2004
Ragu Murtugudde University of Maryland
2005
Julia Nogues-Paegle University of Utah
2005
Christa Peters-Lidard NASA-GSFC
2005
Siegfried Schubert NASA-GSFC
2006
Bjorn Stevens UCLA
2005
Mingfang Ting University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2004
Shang-Ping Xie University of Hawaii
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.