CLIVAR Pacific Region Panel meeting in March, 2025 (Hawaii, USA)
Pacific Region Panel
About Us
Terms of Reference
1.To oversee and facilitate the implementation of CLIVAR in the Pacific sector in order to meet the objectives outlined in the Science and Implementation Plans in collaboration with other relevant panels, research foci groups and task teams. This includes :
–Understanding the dynamics and teleconnexions of ENSO on multiple timescales (in relation with ENSO in a warming world RF)
–Indo-Pacific Decadal Variability and its global connexion (in relation with Climate Dynamics Panel)
–Ocean mass and property transports and their relationships to the Pacific climate and other basins (in relation with other basin panels)
– Regional impacts of climate variability and changes (sea level, ecosystems, extreme events, etc) (in relation with regional sea level RF and upwelling RF)
- Supporting the development of a sustainable tropical observing system (in relation with the TPOS-2020 steering committee)
2. To coordinate the activities of the Pacific nations, facilitating cooperative efforts and coordinating work within the boundaries of the various nations as well as outside those boundaries. To provide a forum for exchange and discussion of national plans in the Pacific and to facilitate observational and modelling efforts and data sharing
3. To identify persistent model errors and interact with GSOP, OMDC, WCRP (AGCMs) to contribute to model improvement (e.g. cold tongue bias, SPCZ, etc.)
4. To liaise with the Ocean Observation Panel for Climate (OOPC), Global Ocean Observing Systems (GOOS) and Global Observation Panel for Climate (GCOS), with the Joint WMO-IOC Collaborative Board, and other relevant groups to ensure that CLIVAR benefits from and contributes to observations in GOOS and GCOS
5. To liaise with IGBP or IHDP programs (FutureEarth) to assess regional ecosystems or societal impacts of global warming related physical changes in the Pacific
6. To advise the CLIVAR SSG of progress and obstacles toward successful implementation of CLIVAR in the Pacific.
Tropical Pacific Decadal Variability Working Group (TPDV WG)
This working group aims to develop our understanding of the nature and predictability of TPDV, its representation in climate models, and its projected changes. Read more
ENSO Conceptual Model Working Group
The working group is to bring experts of ENSO theory, modelling, and observations together to review knowledge on ENSO conceptual models and identify possible avenues for improved conceptual models that can more fully account for ENSO complexity. Read more
ENSO Metrics
The CLIVAR ENSO metrics package - a community-wide effort led by the CLIVAR Pacific Region Panel, in close collaboration with PCMDI, IPSL/LOCEAN, and NOAA - was developed to evaluate ENSO variability, teleconnections, and processes in climate models. Read more
Pacific Atmospheric Teleconnections in a wArming Climate (PATAC)
The PATAC working group aims to consolidate current knowledge of atmospheric teleconnections and enhance our understanding of their potential changes in a warming future. Read more
Tropical Pacific BGC-Physical Interactions (TP BGC PIs) Working Group
The tropical Pacific is a keystone region for global climate and ocean BGC, as largest source of carbon to atmosphere, home to the largest OMZs and a highly productive and biodiverse ecosystem and fisheries. Read more
CLIVAR-PICES Cooperation
CLIVAR and PICES have had demonstrated long-time successful interdisciplinary cooperation, through the cooperation of several PICES Working Groups (WGs) as well as other joint activities. Read more
News View
Events
| Event | City | Country | Dates |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 PRP Workshop on PATAC and TP BGC-PIs - Tokyo, Japan | Tokyo | Japan |
2026-05-21 to 2026-05-22 |
| Wyrtki Symposium and ENSO Winter School 2025 | Honolulu | USA |
2025-03-12 to 2025-03-23 |
| ICTP/CLIVAR Summer School on Marine Heatwaves: Global Phenomena with Regional Impacts | Trieste | Italy |
2023-07-24 to 2023-07-29 |
| 2023 CLIVAR workshop on the tropical Pacific and its interbasin interactions | Melbourne | Australia |
2023-02-14 to 2023-02-17 |
| 15th Session of CLIVAR Pacific Region Panel | Melbourne | Australia | 2023-02-13 |
Publications and Documents
Pacific Panel Members
| Name | Role | Institute | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sophie Cravatte | Co-Chair | 2026 | LEGOS/IRD | France (currently based in New Caledonia) |
| Andrea Taschetto | Co-Chair | 2025 | University of New South Wales | Australia/Brazil |
| Kristopher Karnauskas | Member | 2025 | University of Colorado Boulder | USA |
| Cristian Martinez Villalobos | Member | 2026 | Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez | Chile |
| Tsubasa Kohyama | Member | 2025 | Ochanomizu University | Japan |
| Dhrubajyoti Samanta | Member | 2025 | Nanyang Technological University | Singapore |
| Sayaka Yasunaka | Member | 2025 | Tohoku University | Japan |
| Sharmila Sur | Member | 2026 | Burueau of Meteorology | Australia |
| Yassir Eddebbar | Member | 2026 | Scripps Institution of Oceanography | USA |
| Anna-Lena Deppenmeier | Member | 2026 | University of Liverpool | UK |
| Tatiana Rykova | Member | 2027 | Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation CSIRO | Australia |
| Tao Geng | Member | 2027 | Ocean University of China | China |
| Takeshi Izumo | Member | 2027 | ID (Institut de Recherche pour le Développement), UMR241 SECOPOL, Université de la Polynésie Française | French Polynesia |
| Michael McPhaden | Ex officio | Chair / Tropical Moored Buoy Implementation Panel | USA | |
| Antonietta Capotondi | Ex officio | University of Colorado | USA | |
| Shayne McGregor | Ex officio | Monash University | Australia |
The ICPO contact for the CLIVAR Pacific Region Panel is Agus Santoso.
PRP Endorsed Activities
Northwestern Pacific Ocean Circulation and Climate Experiment (NPOCE)
The NPOCE is designed to observe, simulate, and understand the dynamics of the NWP (Northwestern Pacific) ocean circulation and its role in low-frequency modulations of regional and global climate including the western Pacific warm pool variability, the ITF variability, ENSO, the East Asian Monsoon (EAM), and the NWP cyclones. Read more
Southwest Pacific Ocean Circulation and Climate Experiment (SPICE)
Climate in the South West Pacific region varies due to superimposed effects of El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and other signals including seasonal variations, global warming and natural decadal-scale variability. Read more
