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Dr. In-Sik Kang opened the meeting and introduced representatives of the three Korean agencies which co-sponsored the meeting: Seoul National University (SNU), the Korean Ocean Research and Development Institute (KORDI), and the Korean Meteorological Research Institute (MRI).

Prof. Dr. In-Kyu Lee, Dean of the College of Natural Sciences at Seoul National University, welcomed the meeting participants. He pointed out that global climate change issues are important to Korean researchers for much the same reason that they are important to research scientists elsewhere in the international community.

Dr. Won-Oh Song, the president of KORDI, addressed the importance of the western Pacific warm pool to Korea and the research efforts that KORDI is involved with in this area. He reviewed Korean activities related to TOGA, especially the 1992 and 1994 KORDI field surveys in the western Pacific. He also expressed a commitment to the future in the region by outlining Korean plans under the CLIVAR program.

Dr. Jae-Ho Oh, Head, Forecasting Research Division of MRI, described the 10-year (1991 - 2001) Korean climate change research project, the Highly Advanced National (HAN) Project and its ties to TOGA and CLIVAR. The HAN project focusses on monitoring and modeling efforts around the Korean Peninsula and is being done in conjunction with Seoul National University and Yansei University. Dr. Oh expressed the intent that a Korean national data center should be established to better manage and analyze the data resulting from the HAN program.

Dr. Michael McPhaden, chairman of the TOGA-TAO Implementation Panel, then thanked the meeting hosts and outlined the purposes of the meeting, which were:

• to report on the status of the TAO Array and to consider future potential enhancements;
• to study both short term (next 1 to 2 years) and longer term logistic and maintenance issues related to the Array, in particular, ship time requirements; and
• to promote the scientific exchange between both individuals and organizations utilizing TAO data for scientific purposes.

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