Forecasts are included. Most of these sets are now current through July 1998. Jenne and two other U.S. PIs visited Russia in August 1997 to draw up plans for another year of work. Jenne visited Beijing in September 1996. A considerable amount of data had been exchanged by December 1996.
Documents are available.
Two Chinese visitors spent two weeks at NCAR in September 1998. Beginning in 1999, 1.8 million ship observations from U.S. logbooks, which were discovered in the U.S. National Archives, will be digitized by China as part of the exchange. The project started in 1991, based on many earlier years of data gathering, model development, and related experience. The operational production of analyses started in June 1994, and it was finished in July 1998. The last 10 years of data output were sent to NCAR during September and October 1998.