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A Regional Training Workshop on ‘Observing the Coastal and Marginal Seas in the Western Indian Ocean including the Arabian/Persian Gulf and the Sea of Oman’  will be organised with the proposed dates of 7th - 9th June, 2022, comprising a hybrid format.

In the recent review paper, "Freshwater in the Arctic Ocean 2010–2019", the CLIVAR/CliC Northern Ocean Region Panel assess how the Arctic freshwater budget has changed since the 2000s using ocean reanalyses, in-situ observations,and satellite measurements

Call for abstracts and registration to the WCRP Sea Level 2022 Conference is now open.

The January telecon in 2022 of the CLIVAR/CliC/SCAR Southern Ocean Region Panel (SORP) was organized on 11^th January. The proposed CLIVAR Exchange issue, the update of the tasks of SORP and the status of the field work were discussed. 

The 7th Organising Committee telecon for CLIVAR-GOOS workshop was organized on January 20, 2022, couninuing the discussion of the workshop programme, with a focus on Day 2 and 3. A basic structure of the agenda was developed by the end of the telecon. 

A preparation teleconference for the 2022 WCRP Sea Level Conference was organized on 27th January 2022, with the participation of the WCRP Sea Level Grand Challenge (GC) co-chairs and members, local organizers and event service provider, as well as staff from WCRP Secretariat and ICPO.

A new PICES Working Group on Climate Extremes and Coastal Impacts in the Pacific is under development to better understand the physical drivers and assess the predictability of extreme events and to identify indicators for the socioeconomic impacts from climate extremes.

A recent study published in Advances in Atmospheric Sciences (https://doi.org/10.1007/s00376-022-1461-3), led by Dr. Lijing Cheng, member of CLIVAR GSOP, provides the first analysis of recent OHC changes through 2021 from two international groups, i.e. IAP/CAS in China and NCEI/NOAA in the US.