Global Atmospheric Research Program
The Global Atmospheric Research Program was a fifteen-year international research programme led by the
Numerical Weather Prediction
.
GATE Timeline
| 1966-1969: Global horizontal sounding technique (GHOST) program demonstrates feasibility of long-lived balloons as a precursor to the Global Atmospheric Research Program |
| 1972: "Experiment Design Proposal," Kuetner, Rider, Sitnikov approved by the Joint Organizing Committee for GARP (JOC) and the Tropical Experiment Board (TEB) |
| 15 June 1974: Experiment Began |
| 17 June - 25 June: In port, stand-down, en route, intercomparisons |
| 26 June - 16 July: Observation Phase I |
| 17 July - 27 July: In port, stand-down, en route, intercomparisons |
| 28 July - 17 August: Observation Phase II |
| 18 August - 29 August: in port, stand down, en route, intercomparisons |
| 30 August - 19 September: Observation Phase III |
| 20 September - 23 September: En route, intercomparisons [1] |
References
- ^ American Meteorological Society
- Barron, Eric J. (1992) A Decade of International Climate Research: The First Ten Years of World Climate Research Program US National Academies Press pages 1-2
- Weart, Spencer R. (2003) The Discovery of Global Warming Harvard University Press ISBN 9780674011571pages 99-100
- Philander, S. George (2012) Encyclopedia of Global Warming and Climate Change SAGE Publications ISBN 9781412992626page 634
External links
- NCAR Archives GARP Records
- American Meteorological Society
- The Beginnings of WMO (1950s-1960s)
- ICSU and Climate Science
- A Review of the GARP Atlantic Tropical Experiment (GATE) PDF
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