Dr Cihlar explained that the purpose of this item was to update the list of data sets identified for GOSIC at the last meeting (refer to Terrestrial Observation Panel for Climate, 1998). The work was to be carried out as background work prior to the TOPC-V meeting.
TOPC members provided descriptions of several data sets that were not included in the previous survey (refer to Appendix VIII). No additional problems or lessons learned (beyond those in the 1998 TOPC report) were highlighted.
Recommendation 12.1: TOPC recommends that the above data sets be added to the GOSIC inventory of relevant data sets.
