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Years of the Maritime Continent
Author(s) -
Yoneyama K.,
Zhang C.
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
geophysical research letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.007
H-Index - 273
eISSN - 1944-8007
pISSN - 0094-8276
DOI - 10.1029/2020gl087182
Subject(s) - climatology , climate model , core (optical fiber) , workforce , environmental science , meteorology , set (abstract data type) , earth system science , climate change , computer science , oceanography , geography , geology , political science , telecommunications , law , programming language
Years of the Maritime Continent (YMC) is a multiyear international program with participants from over 15 countries. Its overarching goal is to expedite the progress toward improving understanding and prediction of the local oceanic and atmospheric multiscale variability of the Indo‐Pacific Maritime Continent (MC) and its global impacts. YMC is motivated by the unique role of the MC in both the local and global weather climate systems, our lack of understanding of the key processes governing this role, and persistent systematic biases and errors in numerical model output for the region. YMC builds a comprehensive observational data set of the MC weather climate system, encourages observation‐modeling integration, and educates the next generation of scientists who will be the core workforce and leaders to further advance the study of the MC.