The WOCE was meant to address these problems by providing new data collected in ways designed to "meet the needs of global circulation models for climate prediction.
[1] Specifically, understand: In order to achieve Goal 1, the WCRP outlined and established Core Projects that would receive priority.
The first of these was the "Global Description" project, which was meant to obtain data on the circulation of heat, fresh water and chemicals, as well as the statistics of eddies.
Initial planning of the WOCE states that achievement of Goal 1 would involve "strong interaction between modeling and field activities," which are described further below.
Models with use of data can incorporate various properties, including thermal wind balance, maintenance of the barotropic vorticity budget, and conservation of heat, fresh water, or mass.