The WCRP Observation and Assimilation Panel (WOAP)

The Mission of WOAP is to promote continuity and maintenance of high quality climate observations and long-term data sets for monitoring, understanding, modelling and assessing Earth’s climate system

Documents

• Data Assimilation Activity witihn WCRP
• Reanalysis in support of Climate Research
• Principles for re-processing climate data record
• WCRP Data Sharing and Publication Principles (DRAFT)
• White Paper on WCRP Observations

WOAP Meeting Reports

• Report of the 4th Session of WAOP (WOAP-4), March 2010, Hamburg, GERMANY
• Report of the 3rd Session of WOAP (WOAP-3), October 2008, Boulder, CO USA
• Report of the 2nd Session of WOAP (WOAP-2), August 2006, Ispra ITALY
• Report of the 1st Session of WOAP (WOAP-1), June 2005, New York, USA

WOAP inputs

• WOAP report to JSC-31, March 2010
• WOAP report to GCOS SC-17, October 2009

Useful Webpages

• Overview of Current Atmospheric Reanalysis (wiki)