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Program Management
The Atmospheric Observation Panel for Climate (AOPC) was established to define the requirements for meteorological observations for GCOS. AOPC is responsible for the planning and implementation of GUAN in cooperation with the World Weather Watch of the WMO.
Contact Information
Mark McCarthy
Climate Variability
Met Office,
Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research,
Fitzroy Road,
Exeter,
Devon,
EX1 3PB
United Kingdom
Tel:+44(0)1392 884672
Fax:+44(0)1392 885681
Email : mark.mccarthy@metoffice.com
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Data Management Aspects
The Hadley Centre of the UK Met Office and the NOAA/National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) act as joint data analysis centers for GUAN. Their responsibilities are:
NCDC
- Update and quality control daily data
- Apply bias adjustments to daily data
- Calculate monthly statistics (MONADS) from the bias-adjusted daily data
- Report on historical and metadata reception and improve metadata
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Provide daily and monthly data to users
The Hadley Centre
- Improve monthly station data base
- Improve bias adjustments to monthly data
- Analyze monthly upper air data
- Provide grid products with reduced biases
- Create global and regional monthly statistics
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