Forecasts are included. Most of these sets are now current through September 1997. Jenne and two other U.S. Principal Investigators 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.
NCAR and NOAA also reached an exchange agreement with State Oceanic Administration of the Chinese National Oceanographic Data Center in Tianjin, China. We will furnish a land surface station archive in exchange for the digitization of 1.8 million ship observations from U.S. logbooks. 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. The observations can be used for future reanalyses and for all sorts of other research.