The GCOS/WCRP Atmospheric Observation Panel for Climate (AOPC) Working Group on the GCOS Reference Upper Air Network (WG-GRUAN) was established in 2006 in recognition of the importance of initiating reference-quality observations of atmospheric column properties, in particular temperature and water vapour, from the surface into the stratosphere to enhance the monitoring and understanding of climate variability and change. A GRUAN Implementation Plan was published in July 2009 covering the period until 2013. At the second Implementation and Coordination Meeting held in Payerne, Switzerland in March 2010 the Working Group, Lead Centre and initial sites agreed to the instigation of a number of task teams.
The task team on site intercommunication and reporting exists to provide and maintain a convenient mechanism for each GRUAN site to communicate with other sites, the WG-GRUAN and the Lead Centre, and for the WG-GRUAN and Lead Centre to disseminate information to all GRUAN sites through their task team representative. Each site is encouraged to have one representative on this task team and if possible, to provide other task teams with knowledgeable members such that each site has wide-ranging representation within GRUAN. The task team on site intercommunication and reporting should include a shared member from the task team on measurement schedules, preferably from an institution/program that is under-represented within GRUAN, so that each task team is promptly informed about any recent activities of the other.
The success of GRUAN is critically dependent on the efficiency of communication between sites, the WG-GRUAN and the Lead Centre. Sites experiencing problems, concerns, breakthroughs in best practices and/or important discoveries are expected to initially communicate these to the task team on site representation. After internal discussion, the task team will communicate this information to the appropriate GRUAN representatives.
Under the auspices of the WG-GRUAN the task team was established to:
Site | Name |
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Lauder, New Zealand | Richard Querel (co-chair) |
Paramaribo, Suriname | Ankie Piters (co-chair) |
AWI/ Ny-Ålesund, Norway | Marion Maturilli |
Boulder, USA | Elizabeth Asher |
Beltsville, USA | Belay B. Demoz |
Cabauw, Netherlands | Arnoud Apituley |
Sodankylä, Finland | Rigel Kivi |
Potenza, Italy | Marco Rosoldi |
Payerne, Switzerland | Gianni Martucci |
Tateno, Japan | KAWAGUCHI Toshiyuki |
ARM Sites, USA | Evan Keeler |
Xilinhot, China | Luo Hao Wen |
Lindenberg, Germany | Ruud Dirksen |
Australian sites | Andrew Winchester |
Réunion Island, France | Stephanie Evan |
Singapore | Gavin Yeap |
Dolgoprudny, Russia | Nadeschda Krestyanikova |
Trappes Palaiseau, France | Jean-Charles Dupont |
Tenerife, Spain | Miguel Hernández Martínez de la Peña |
Syowa, Japan | IJIMA Osamu |
Minamitorishima, Japan | HISAMITSU Junji |
Neumayer, Antarctica (DE) | Holger Schmithüsen |
Ross Island, Antarctica (NZ, US) | Richard Querel |
Hong Kong, China | Jason Lam |
Dakar, Senegal | Seydi Ababacar Ndiaye |
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