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BACKGROUND

The Second Joint WMO/IOC Technical Commission for Oceanography and Marine Meteorology (JCOMM) Workshop on Advances in Marine Climatology (CLIMAR-II) was held in Brussels, Belgium, on 17-22 November 2003 with more than 80 people from 20 WMO Member countries attending. CLIMAR-II was organized jointly by JCOMM and the Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium, and sponsored by the Belgian Federal Science Policy Office, Environment Canada, the Japan Meteorological Agency and the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.