Coordinated Enhanced Observing Period
CEOP is an effort to address some of the critical aspects of the climate system involving land areas in
particular over a 2 year period beginning in mid-2001. It will focus on two overall issues:
water and energy fluxes and reservoirs over land areas,
monsoonal circulations
CEOP will involve the simultaneous or near-simultaneous collection of observations from several regions around the world.
In particular, it will include:
several reference sites in the continental-scale experimental regions of GEWEX
as well as other regions
extensive field measurements for addressing monsoonal systems
validation studies for new satellite systems
CEOP will lead to:
better understanding of water and energy fluxes and reservoirs over specific land areas
progress at better appreciating the role of land areas in the whole climate system
a testing of our capabilities to transfer techniques and models between different GEWEX continental-scale
experimental (and other) regions and to predict water-related parameters
enhanced understanding of the land-atmosphere-ocean interactions
see also http://www.ceop.net (defunct)