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Group on Surface Fluxes. He highlighted a need for CLIVAR to support further development 

of ocean reanalyses, for GEWEX   to establish the WCRP wide precipitation panel, for 

WGNE and WGCM   to address convection schemes in atmospheric models, systematic 

errors, operational fluxes. He indicated that adequate description of model initial state in 

terms of statistical moments and knowledge of essential climate variable probability densities 

from observations are relevant problems for the OOPC.