The Coordinated Enhanced ObservingPeriod (CEOP) seeks to establish an integrated global observing system for the water cycle which responds to both scientific and social needs. It is built as the foundation of the World Climate Research Program (WCRP) in cooperation with the World Meteorological Organization(WMO) and Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS) under the framework of the Integrated Global Observing Strategy partnership (IGOS-P).
Objectives:
CEOP is an effort to address some of the critical aspects of the climate system involving land areas in particular over a 2 year period beginning in mid-2001. It will focus on two overall issues:
CEOP will involve the simultaneous or near-simultaneous collection of observations from several regions around the world. In particular, it will include:
For more information, please see EOL's CEOP page.