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Jin Huang and Sandy Lucas from NOAA, with the support of Mike Patterson, Director of the USCLIVAR Project office, organized on 9th September a teleconference with Sonya Legg, co-chair of the CLIVAR SSG, and Jose Santos, Executive Director of the International CLIVAR Project office, to present the initiative GPEX.

A new and exciting research activity is currently being...

The 8th conference call of the CLIVAR ENSO conceptual models working group was held on September 8th, 2021 and lasted about 1h45 with 16 members of the working group and guests present. 

The first talk was given by Dr. Xiang-Hui Fang on an extension of the recharge oscillator to a 3-box model that can...

A telecom was organized on 26 August 2021 to discuss the preparation of the Western Indian Ocean (WIO) Training Workshop, which is to be organized in Spring 2022. Greg Cowie, Lynnath Beckley, and Jenny Huggett from SIBER and Bernadino Malauene, Roxy Mathew Koll and Juliet Hermes from IORP, and Jing Li from ICPO joint the discussion.

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In recognition of the shared interest in monsoons research, the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) and the World Weather Research Programme (WWRP) have signed an agreement for a joint International Monsoons Project Office (IMPO) and the office has now been established at the Indian Institute of Tropical...

US Climate Variability and Predictability (US CLIVAR) is a national research program with a mission to foster understanding and prediction of climate variability and change on intraseasonal-to-centennial timescales, through observations and modeling with emphasis on the role of the ocean and its interaction with other elements of the Earth system, and to...

On 31 December 2020, the 75th Session of the United Nations General Assembly proclaimed the formal launch of the United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021-2030, Ocean Decade for short). The Decade is designated to boost international coordination and cooperation in ocean research and scientific programmes for better management of ocean and coastal zone...

The monthly preparation telecon for 2022 Sea Level Conference was organized on 24 August 2021, with the participation of 8 organizing committee members, including representatives from WCRP Sea Level Grand Challenge, local organizers and Jose Santos and Jing Li from ICPO.

Ms. Gwen Tan briefly introduced the current status of...

The 3rd Organising Committee Telecon for CLIVAR-GOOS workshop was organised on 20 August 2021, with the participation of Weidong Yu (Chair), Lisa Beal (OOPC), Maria Paz Chidichimo (ARP), Sophie Cravatte (PRP), Ivonne Montes (PRP), Hindumathi Palanisamy (GSOP & WCRP Secretariat), and Jose Santos and Jing Li from ICPO. The major uptakes from the...

  The Southern Ocean Task Force and the Organizing Committee of Polar Data Forum IV are pleased to announce that the Southern Ocean Decade & Polar Data Forum Week 2021 will be convened on 20-24 September 2021. This event will be dedicated to the 2nd Southern Ocean Regional Workshop for the UN Ocean Decade and the 4h edition of the Polar Data Forum.


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The journal Frontiers in Marine Science is having a new special volume entitled "The role of the South Atlantic on the interbasin and pole-to-pole connections". It aims to improve our understanding of the physical and biogeochemical processes that link the South Atlantic to other ocean basins and that within the Atlantic as a whole through either oceanic or...

Figure1 Key developments in understanding El Niño–Southern Oscillation response to greenhouse forcing 

Originating in the equatorial Pacific, the El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is the most important climate phenomenon on Earth with highly consequential global impacts on society, such as agriculture, public...

The 80th edition of CLIVAR Exchanges, reflecting the outcomes of the WCRP-CLIVAR Workshop on Climate Interactions among the Tropical Basins, has been published. Dr Ingo Richter, senior researcher at Japanese Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) and co-chair of the CLIVAR Tropical Basin Research...

The 2022 Ocean Sciences Meeting is going to be held in Honolulu, USA on February 27-March 4. In preparation for the meeting, we present you here the sessions organized by CLIVAR and those relevant to our community. The list of...

Based on the latest regulations in accordance with US federal, state, and local guidelines regarding COVID-19, the Planning Committee of the 2021 Ocean Salinity Conference decided to postpone the conference to 6-9 June 2022 as an in-person event with a virtual participation option. Future announcements about reopening of registration and abstract submission will be sent via...

We are deeply saddened and of great sorrow to hear that Dr. Satya Prakash, scientist at the Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services (INCOIS), passed away on 22 July 2021 due to cardiac arrest. He was recovering from COVID.

Satya joined the INCOIS in 2008, his research focused on ocean biogeochemistry, climate change, and ocean carbon/nitrogen cycle. Satya was the...

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