The global hydrologic and energy cycles: suggestions for studies in the pre-Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment (GEWEX) period

Abstract

A theoretical and modeling framework must be established in which the obesrvations taken during the Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment (GEWEX), the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM), and during the Earth Observing System Experiment (Eos) may be utilized and understood. The calculations of the seasonal cycle of water and energy fluxes between atmosphere and ocean, and between atmosphere and land may be carried out in four ways. First, the existing operational analyses of atmospheric data from the National Meteorological Center (NMC) and the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF). Second, a set of reanalyzed data must be created from the historical record. Third, a long integration of the most realistic, high-resolution GCM available. -from Authors