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<body> <a name="top"> </a> <h2>MOTIF Web Site</h2> <hr class="title" align="left" noshade size="2"> <p> </p> <div class="center"> <table border="0" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="10" width="100%"> <tr> <td class="bannerlg"> Models and Observations to Test Climate Feedbacks </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="justify"> <table border="0" style="width: 10%;" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="width: 1px; white-space: nowrap;"><small>The NOCES project has</small></td> <td class="emphasize">three objectives:</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <ol> <li> <font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2">to assess interannual-decadal variability of air-sea CO2 flux (ocean model-data comparison), </font></li> <li> <font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2">to evaluate prognostic coupled carbon-climate models (w.r.t. interannual variability), and </font></li> <li> <font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2">to improve constraints on the terrestrial carbon sink (ocean model sea-air CO2 fluxes as a priori estimates for inverse atmospheric models).</font></li> </ol> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" style="width: 10%;" border="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="white-space: nowrap;"><small>NOCES </small></td> <td class="emphasize">originalities </td> <td style="white-space: nowrap;"><small>include</small></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <ul> <li> <font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2">it being the first ocean model Intercomparison to focus on interannual-decadal variability (1 regional and 5 global ocean models); </font></li> <li> <font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2">it being the first to simulate decadal variability (NCEP 1950-present) and focus on associated mechanisms; and </font></li> <li> <font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2">its inclusion of an inverse atmospheric modeling component. </font></li> </ul> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="justify"> If you are viewing this page, your browser is not able to deal with frames... Don't worry, you can still access the web site by selecting links on the the <a href="sitemap.shtml">site map</a>. </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="centerbold"> Click <a href="sitemap.shtml">HERE</a> to enter the NOCES web site! </td> </tr> </table> </div>   <div class="bottom"> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"> <tr> <td colspan="3"> <hr align="right" noshade size="1"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" width="15%"> <a href="/motif/" target="_parent">Home</a> </td> <td align="left" width="15%"> <a href="#top" target="_self">Top</a> </td> <td align="right"> Last updated $Date$ </td> </tr> </table> </div> </body>