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                   <span class="homepagetitles">ECCO1</span>   </p> | 
                   <span class="homepagetitles">ECCO1</span>   </p> | 
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               <p>(The orignal ECCO)     ECCO1 refers to the initial consortium formed in 1998 by a group of scientists   at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (<A href="http://scienceandtechnology.jpl.nasa.gov/research/research-topics-list/earth-sciences/ocean-science" target="_blank">JPL</A>), the Massachusetts Institute of   Technology (<A href="http://eapsweb.mit.edu/" target="_blank">MIT</A>) and the Scripps   Institution of Oceanography (<A href="http://sio.ucsd.edu/">SIO</A>).<br />From its   mission statement: <BR /> | 
               <p>(The orignal ECCO)     ECCO1 refers to the initial consortium formed in 1998 by a group of scientists   at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (<A href="https://science.jpl.nasa.gov/EarthScience/index.cfm" target="_blank">JPL</A>), the Massachusetts Institute of   Technology (<A href="http://eapsweb.mit.edu/" target="_blank">MIT</A>) and the Scripps   Institution of Oceanography (<A href="http://sio.ucsd.edu/">SIO</A>).<br />From its   mission statement: <BR /> | 
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                     <em>"... to bring ocean state estimation from its current   experimental status to that of a practical and quasi operational tool for   studying large-scale ocean dynamics, designing observational strategies, and   examining the ocean's role in climate variability." </em><br /> | 
                     <em>"... to bring ocean state estimation from its current   experimental status to that of a practical and quasi operational tool for   studying large-scale ocean dynamics, designing observational strategies, and   examining the ocean's role in climate variability." </em><br /> | 
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                 (<A href="http://www.ecco-group.org/scienceplans/ecco1_scienceplan.pdf" target="_blank">click here   for a complete science plan</A>) <BR /> | 
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