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The El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is the dominant climate phenomenon affecting extreme weather conditions worldwide. Its response to greenhouse warming has challenged scientists for decades, despite model agreement on projected mean state changes. Recent studies have provided new insights into the elusive links between ENSO and Pacific climate mean-state changes. The...
Western boundary currents (WBCs) are swift, narrow oceanic currents found in all major oceanic gyres. Within the Pacific Ocean, the subtropical gyre WBCs are the Kuroshio Current in the Northern Hemisphere, and the East Australian Current (EAC) in the Southern Hemisphere. The Pacific low-latitude, tropical belt WBCs include the Mindanao Current (MC) in the Northern...
Since its identification in the late 1990’s as the dominant year-round pattern of monthly North Pacific sea surface temperature (SST) variability, the Pacific decadal oscillation (PDO) [Mantua et al., 1997; Zhang et al., 1997] has been connected both to other parts of the climate system and to impacts on natural resources and marine and terrestrial...
ICPO is pleased to announce that Ms. Jing Li has joined the ICPO team in Qingdao, China. Jing comes from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Beijing, P.R. China, where she has been Programme Assistant for Global Environmental Facility (GEF) Small Grants Programme (SGP) for over 6 years. Before that Jing worked at International Cooperation Department in State Oceanic Administration...
The US West Coast eastern boundary upwelling system supports one of the most productive marine ecosystems in the world and is a primary source of ecosystem services for the US (e.g., fishing, shipping, and recreation). Long-term historical observations of physical and biological variables in this region have been collected since the 1950s, leading to an excellent...
The CLIVAR leadership expresses alarm at news of cuts to climate and ocean research programmes in Australia. Read more….
More than 750 scientists from 66 countries submitted 936 abstracts to the CLIVAR Open Science Conference before the 25 March deadline. Almost half were from Early Career Scientists, which certainly bodes well for the future of climate and ocean science! 280 ECS applied for a place in the ECS Symposium that will take place before and after the OSC. The review team will now review all...
The First Institute of Oceanography (FIO) and the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) invite applications for the post of Executive Director of the International CLIVAR(Climate and Ocean - Variability, Predictability, and Change) Project Office,...
CLIVAR Open Science Conference abstract submission, requests for funding, and applications to participate in the Early Career Scientists Symposium of 2016 will be closed on Friday 25 March 9 pm GMT; visit www.clivar2016.org before then to submit an abstract, apply for funding or the...
This week at the Arctic Science Summit Week the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) and the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation announced the launch of a new Polar Challenge to develop an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) capable of completing a 2000 km mission under the sea ice in the Arctic or Antarctic.
The aim of the challenge, which includes prize money totalling 500 000...
The CFMIP/WCRP/ICTP Conference on Cloud Processes, Circulation and Climate Sensitivity will be held 4-7 July 2016 at the International Center for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy. This CFMIP/WCRP/ICTP international conference will focus on the theme of the WCRP Grand Challenge on Clouds, Circulation and Climate Sensitivity, in addition to addressing other ongoing CFMIP activities.
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Due to unanticipated technical difficulties, the abstract submission system has migrated to a new system. All abstracts and information submitted through the old system have been transferred to the new system, and past submitters have received a notification with a new login, password and abstract number(s).
To allow the necessary time for migration and implementation of the new system...
The ocean is an increasingly important source of protein for a growing human population, but at the same time under constant pressure from climate change, pollution and fisheries activities. In this course we will discuss how the ocean and the organisms living in it are affected by these factors,...
Post-doctoral program for young scientists, co-sponsored by the LabexMER cluster of excellence, Ifremer, the University of Brest and the Brittany Regional council.
The aim of the program is to give creative young scientists the opportunity to develop their own research project in one of the LabexMER laboratories in Brest, South Brittany or in Nantes (France).
Fellows are...
During the last decade, the ocean community witnessed worldwide the launch of over 30 new ocean-related satellite missions. Plans for new satellites, to improve the spatial-temporal sampling, are already laid well into the foreseeable future, and today, we are already talking Petabytes of data to download, analyze, transform into accessible information. Increasing computer...
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