Marine Heatwaves (MHWs) are extreme climatic events that impact all ocean basins and can persist from weeks to months and spread over hundreds to thousands of kilometers. MHWs have devastating impacts on marine habitats and ecosystems and influence regional weather systems such as the monsoons and extreme weather events like tropical cyclones. Climate change is...
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Ocean Observing Co-Design Programme, implemented by the Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS), is a flagship programme endorsed by the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable...
In response to the rapid pace of scientific advances and recognizing the need for the project to be flexible and responsive to new ideas and challenges, CLIVAR has developed the concept of Research Foci (RF), which have proven to be effective means to initiate in a bottom-up-process, new research and invigorate progress in areas that are of high priority to the...
The CLIVAR Climate Dynamics Panel organized a series online meetings in June 2022 which aimed to give opportunity to the members to get familiar with each other’s work and to plan the future panel activities.
The meeting took place on 1st, 7th, 13th and 23th June, with 1 hour each session. During the first session, Sarah briefly reported the current situation of the CDP 2022 annual...
The BRICS Workshop on Climate Prediction and Marine Disaster Prevention and Mitigation, hosted by the Administrative Center for China’s Agenda 21, organized jointly by the First Institute of Oceanography and the Decade Collaborative Center on Ocean-Climate Nexus and Coordination Amongst Decade Implementing Partners in P. R. China (DCC-OCC), took place on 12-13 December 2022, in Qingdao of...
The CLIVAR Scientific Steering Group (SSG) organized an online meeting on 5th December 2022 to discuss the membership proposals, 2023 CLIVAR budgets, new CLIVAR Research Focus proposals, as well as the current status of the International CLIVAR Project Office (ICPO). The CLIVAR SSG members, one representative from WCRP Secretariat and four ICPO staff...
FIGURE 1 | A workflow of eiological forecasts based on multiple physical GCM predictions with statistical downscaling. The squares indicate systems that produce predictions, downscaling or biological estimation, whereas the parallelograms indicate the outputs from the systems. The stacked parallelograms in the middle...
As a partner of the Digital Twin of The Ocean (DITTO), a programme endorsed by the UN Ocean Decade, ICPO was invited to attend the 1st DITTO Partner Meeting held virtually and in two sessions on Dec.1 and 2, 2022 respectively. 15 out of 24 formal DITTO partners attended either of the two sessions of the Meeting. The meeting mainly covered the...
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The EGU General Assembly 2023 is going to be held in Vienna, Austria and online on 23-28 April. The call for abstracts is open until 10 January 2023, 13:00 CET. In preparation for the meeting, we have compiled a list of sessions that are relevant to the community and convened by CLIVAR Panels, Research Foci and community members. The list of sessions is not intended to be...
The 2nd Indian Ocean Early Career Scientists WG Telecon was organized on 5 November 2022. 12 Representatives from IORP, YESS, WIOMSA-ECSN and IIOE-2 ECSN attended the telecon. The telecon was focused on the newly developed SDA2 Framework (Skill Development, Awareness and Application), as well as the ECS’ active involvement in planning for the...
The 7th SPARC General Assembly was organized on 24-28 October 2022. In order to lower carbon footprint, this GA was held in three hubs: the Europe hub in Reading, UK, the Americas hub in Boulder, USA, and the Asia hub in Qingdao, China, offering participants with opportunities to join the nearest site. The Asia hub was hosted by the First Institute of Oceanography (FIO), Ministry of Natural...
Fig. 1 SWOT tracks during its calibration phase and strategic Xover regions in the Atlantic sector. The regions cover the Gulf Stream separation and its extension (Regions 1 and 2), the...
Jose Santos, Executive Director of the International CLIVAR Project Office, attended online the 4th Open Science Symposium on Western Pacific Ocean Circulation and Climate which took place in Xiamen, China on the 24-27 of October, and provided some remarks on behalf of CLIVAR during the opening session.
The symposium provided a forum for the ocean community to exchange recent progress...
