Dr. Antonietta Capotondi received the AGU Harald Svedrup Lecture 2024
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From July 22-31, 2024, the ICTP-SORP-NORP Summer School and Workshop on Polar Climates: Theoretical, Observational, and Modelling Advances took place in Trieste, Italy
By Juliet Hermes, Ann-Christine Zinkann, Weidong Yu, Yosuke Fujii, Scott Glenn, Cheyenne Stienbarger, Emma Heslop, Gregory Foltz, David Legler, Belén Martín Míguez, Tammy Morris, Ronnie Noona
This second-generation CLIVAR Science Plan builds on the important legacy of CLIVAR emerging since its inception in 1992 and redirects the CLIVAR goals and priorities for the coming decade after consultation with scientists and stakeholders throughout the climate community.
Science Highlights
Please have a look at the Guidelines for Science Highlights
Our CLIVAR member Satyaban Bishoyi Ratna from Climate Dynamics Panel and Monsoons Panel recently published the article which explored two distinct types of evolution in La Niña and the associated asymmetry in the response of the ISMR. It was observed that India receives significantly more and less rainfall during ELLA and LALA events, respectively, and ISMR has a spatial diversity with a northeast-southwest dipole pattern.
Our CLIVAR members Prof. Fangli Qiao and Dr. Qi Shu, from SSG and NORP respectively, and former OMDP member Qiang Wang, contributed to the study of Marine Heatwaves (MHWs) and Total Heat Exposures (THEs) in a future warming climate.
A member of the CLIVAR Tropical Basin Interaction Research Foci (TBI RF) recently published a paper that highlights the importance of coupled dynamics between the tropical Atlantic and Indian Oceans in shaping and intensifying super El Niño events. Their study, which utilizes a series of global climate model experiments, demonstrates that super El Niño events are driven by a complex interaction among the tropical Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans. It was observed that while individual effects were weaker and more uncertain, the combined effects were significantly stronger and more reliable. Specifically, the joint influence of the Atlantic and Indian Oceans was found to more effectively drive tropical Pacific warming. This process is linked to the nonlinear characteristics of convective sensitivity: when both oceans impact the Pacific simultaneously, they more effectively promote the eastward expansion of the Pacific warm pool, enhancing tropical Pacific convection and strengthening the Bjerknes feedback loop, ultimately leading to the formation of a super El Niño event.
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Upcoming Events
| Event | City | Country | Dates |
|---|---|---|---|
| The CLIVAR Climate Dynamics Panel 5th Annual workshop | Mantra Lorne | Australia |
2025-02-24 to 2025-02-27 |
| Wyrtki Symposium and ENSO Winter School 2025 | Honolulu | USA |
2025-03-12 to 2025-03-23 |
| Eighth WMO International Workshop on Monsoons (IWM-8) | Pune | India |
2025-03-17 to 2025-03-21 |
| International Conference on Southern Hemisphere Meteorology and Oceanography (ICSHMO) 2025 | Cape Town | South Africa |
2025-03-31 to 2025-04-04 |
