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  <h3>Themes and Objectives from Center years 1 through 5</h3>

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  <h3 style="color:#dd6600">Research</h3><ul>
  <li><a href="themes/low-cloud.html"><b>Cloud Feedbacks</b></a><br /></li>
  <li><a href="themes/tools.html"><b>Dynamical Framework</b></a><br /></li>
  <li><a href="themes/mjo.html"><b>MJO</b></a><br /></li>
  <li><a href="themes/interactions.html"><b>Physical Processes</b></a><p></p></li>
	
  <li><a href="/research/">Research webpage</a><p></p></li>
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  <h3 style="color:#dd6600">Education, Outreach and Diversity</h3><ul>
  <li><a href="themes/k12.html"><b>K-12 Education and Outreach to the Public and
	Policymakers</b></a><br /></li>
  <li><a href="themes/college.html"><b>Undergraduate and Graduate Education, and
	Teaching Future Teachers</b></a><br /></li>
  <li><a href="themes/div.html"><b>Increasing the Diversity of Climate Scientists
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  <li><a href="/scienceEd/">Education, outreach and diversity webpage</a><p></p></li>
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  <h3 style="color:#dd6600">Knowledge Transfer</h3><ul>
  <li><a href="themes/ktcenters.html"><b>Knowledge-Transfer to Climate Modeling and
	NWP Centers</b></a><br /></li>
  <li><a href="themes/bookjou.html"><b>Book and Journal</b></a><p></p></li>
  <li><a href="/kt/">Knowledge Transfer website</a><p></p></li>
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  <h3>Objectives</h3>

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  <h3 style="color:#dd6600">Research</h3><ul>
  <li>1 Extensions, evaluations and applications of the prototype MMF</li>
  <li>2 Development of a second-generation MMF</li>
  <li>3 Physical process parameterization</li>
  <li>4 Innovative analysis, evaluation and interpretation of MMF results using
    emerging datasets</li>
  <li>5 Accelerating improvement of conventional parameterizations</li>
  <li>6 Optimal use of computational and data storage resources</li>
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  <h3 style="color:#dd6600">Education</h3><ul>
  <li>1 Enhance K-12 education </li>
  <li>2 Outreach to climate stakeholders &amp; policymakers</li>
  <li>3 Improved undergraduate climate education</li>
  <li>4 Improve graduate research and education</li>
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  <h3 style="color:#dd6600">Diversity</h3><ul>
  <li>1 Recruit and support relevant Ph.D. candidates from underrepresented
    groups</li>
  <li>2 Recruit and support relevant undergraduate students </li>
  <li>3 Implement programs that encourage retention of women, minorities and
    the under-served in the science pipeline </li>
  <li>4 Study diversity problems and solutions, and disseminate results</li>
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  <h3 style="color:#dd6600">Knowledge Transfer</h3><ul>
  <li>1 Provide to climate modeling centers improved tools for the simulation of
    global cloudiness, as well as innovative tools for the analysis of such
    simulations </li>
  <li>2 Provide improved cloud parameterizations to numerical weather prediction
    centers</li>
  <li>3 Create an edited book on the history of global atmospheric modeling</li>
  <li>4 Create a new all-electronic open-access journal for the publication of
  research on global environmental modeling, including review articles and a
  semi-popular section</li>
  <li>5 Create and maintain a website containing a section designed to make
    CMMAP results easily available to the scientific community and a section
    designed to increase public understanding of issues in global climate
    modeling</li>
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