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Climate
Variations Observational Research Program |
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This program will develop
an extensive and continuous ocean observing system
in the western Pacific Ocean, the Indian Ocean and
other oceans under an international cooperation, and
clarify mechanisms of oceanic and atmospheric variations
on seasonal to decadal time scales.[more] |
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Hydrological
Cycle Observational Program |
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Water greatly influences the variety and the characteristic of the global climate.
Currently, it is necessary to understand the hydrological cycle from the viewpoints
of water resources, disasters and agriculture because there is a great concern
about the change and the variability of the cycle caused by global warming.[more] |
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Global
Warming Observational Research Program |
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The northwestern North Pacific Ocean is significant with regard to high nutrient
concentrations and the high primary productivity. That is, therefore, one of key
oceanic regions for understanding the global material cycle, because the
biological pump is particularly effective transferring the atmospheric CO2 to the
ocean interior.[more] |
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Ocean,
Land and Atmosphere Interactions Integrated Research
Project |
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The Indian Ocean, the western Pacific Ocean and "Maritime Continent" between
these two oceans, have unique geography with the various tropical islands over a
significantly warm ocean. Various precipitating clouds over the region drive the
global atmospheric circulation as the "heat engine". Thus, the modulation of the
precipitating cloud system over the region affects the global climate so much.[more] |
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