The WCRP “Regional Sea Level Change and Coastal Impacts” Grand Challenge is organizing the Sea Level 2022 Conference to be held in Singapore, 11-15 July 2022. In order to continue its planning, some members from the Local Organizing Committee: Robert.Nicholls, Wal, R.S.W. van de (Roderik), Aurel MOISE, Svetlana Jevrejeva, Benjamin P. Horton, Kathy Mcinnes, David Behar and Jose Santos held a...
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On May 5th GSOP organized a teleconference to plan its activities for the year. The meeting was chaired by Peter Oke and Steven Jayne, and had the participation of several GSOP members; and there were special presentations from Narelle van der Wel (briefing on the WCRP LHAs), Yosuke Fujii (presentation on OceanPredict OSEval Task Team), Susann Tegtmeier (briefing on the WCRP Core...
The 33rd Session of the GEWEX Scientific Steering Group (SSG) was held online from 3-6 May 2021.
The Global Energy and Water Exchanges (...
The WCRP Secretariat and International Project Offices (IPOs) telecon was organized on 6th May 2021, with the participation of representatives from the IPOs of CliC, CLIVAR, SPARC, CORDEX, S2S, CORA, Monsoon, YESS and WCRP Secretariat. The major uptakes from the telecon are:
- Staff changes in WCRP Secretariat and IPOs: Nico Caltabiano and Narelle van der Wel will join...
As invited by the organisers of the 2021 “AI Earth” Artificial Intelligence Innovation Challenge -- AI Helps Accurate Weather and Ocean Forecast”, Jose Santos, Executive Director of ICPO sent his remark to the final and the closing ceremony of the competition, which was organised on the 52nd World Earth Day (22 April 2021). The event brought together government...
The second telecon in 2021 of CLIVAR/CliC/SCAR Southern Ocean Region Panel (SORP) was held at 8th April. Main output of the telecon are as follows.
- SORP will continue to have its regular meeting in the following months of this year to keep in touch.
- Information and ideas of the on-planning major SORP meetings in 2021 were exchanged, including the SORP-14, NORP-...
The first telecom of the CLIVAR Climate Dynamics Panel in 2021 was held in April 8th, with the refresh of the members. Four new members, Yoshi Sasaki, Michael Byrne, Juliette Mignot, and Jennifer Kay joined the panel.
The telecon began with the introduction of CDP by the co-chair, including the term of reference, aim, and future plan, followed by the self-introduction of each...
UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) has released the report Integrated Ocean Carbon Research: A Summary of Ocean Carbon Research, and Vision of Coordinated Ocean Carbon Research and Observations for the Next Decade on April 23rd, 2021. It is accessible at the UNESCO Digital Library and...
The 17th Session of CLIVAR/IOC-GOOS Indian Ocean Region Panel (IORP-17) held virtually on 28 April 2021. 28 people participated in the meeting, including IORP members and representatives from IORP partners and Early Career Scientists (ECS) communities in the Indian Ocean.
The...
The leadership and joint members of the CLIVAR/IOC-GOOS Indian Ocean Region Panel (IORP) and the Sustained Indian Ocean Biogeochemistry and Ecosystem Research (SIBER) of IMBeR held a telecon on 23 April 2021, to discuss how to strengthen the cooperation between the groups. The SIBER chair (Greg Cowie) and co-chair (Raleigh Hood), IORP co-chairs (Roxy Mathew Koll...
The World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) local organizing committee for the North and Central America, Caribbean, and Greenland region warmly invite you to the upcoming WCRP Climate Research Forum on "Climate research priorities for the next decade", which will be online on 11 May 2021, 15:00 - 17:30 Eastern Daylight Time (19:00 - 21:30 UTC).
This is the third in a...
An OOPC/WCRP-CLIVAR joint session was successfully organised online on 22 April 2021 during the OOPC-24, in order to further strengthen the interaction between OOPC and WCRP/CLIVAR. There were around 20 people attending the session. M. Ravichandran (CLIVAR SSG), Regina Rodrigues and Greg Foltz (CLIVAR ARP), Roxy Mathew Koll and Juliet Hermes (CLIVAR/IOC-GOOS IORP...
The WCRP organized a Leadership Meeting (online) on 21st April 2021, with the participation of members of the WCRP Joint Scientific Committee (JSC), chairs of all the Core Projects, leaders of the Grand Challenges, chairs of the Light House Activities (LHA), directors of the International Project Offices, and the WCRP Secretariat. Sonya Legg (co-chair of the CLIVAR Scientific...
Blue-Action, ROADMAP and the Bjerknes Climate Prediction Unit, together with the CLIVAR Climate Dynamics Panel, the CLIVAR Atlantic Region Panel and CLIVAR Northern Oceans Region Panel, are organising a workshop to promote research on predictability in the North Atlantic and Arctic sector. This is a CLIVAR endorsed workshop, and the final event for the Blue-Action...
The 1st Telecon of the CLIVAR AMOC Task Team (TT) was organised on 1 April 2021. The AMOC TT was formulated to facilitate communication, promote international cooperation, and support continuing AMOC research and infrastructures, towards addressing ongoing, pressing science priorities which have already been defined by the international community (i.e., US AMOC Science Team, UK...
