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The International CLIVAR Project Office (ICPO) and Scientific Steering Group (SSG) co-chairs have been working in conjunction with a graphics design team over the last few months to redesign the CLIVAR logo. The new CLIVAR logo has now been designed and approved, and will be first utilised in a new CLIVAR brochure. The brochure will be circulated online and at Fall AGU, at the US-CLIVAR...

US CLIVAR is hosting a town hall meeting at the Fall AGU meeting in San Francisco (9-13Dec 2013). The session will be held on Monday 9th December at 12.30-13.30.

The townhall meeting will provide the opportunity for U.S. CLIVAR's (Climate Variability and Predictability) SSC to present an overview of the program's new 15-yr Science Plan with an outline of the Plan's Fundamental Science...

WCRP Summer School

The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) is organizing, in collaboration with the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP), a Summer School on the Attribution and Prediction of Extreme Events
Dates: 21 July - 1 August 2014
Location: ICTP, Triete, Italy
Deadline for applications: 31st...

The UK's Royal Research Ship (RRS) Discovery was officially named at the beginning of October, by HRH The Princess Royal. The naming ceremony took place at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton and was attended by around 200 guests.

Guests included the Science Minister David Willetts, local MPs, civic guests and senior figures from the UK’s marine science community. The ceremony...

Exchanges 65

The new Exchanges 65, is a special issue on high resolution ocean climate modelling, that is an outcome of the WGOMD Workshop on this topic. It gives a flavour of the frontier topics, state...

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Location: Goa, India

2nd PAGES Young Scientist Meeting: 11th - 12th February

4th PAGES Open Science Meeting: 13th - 16th February

These two meetings are...

The CLIVAR-GEWEX Africa Climate Panel is pleased to announce the launch of the WCRP Africa Newsletter. The first issue is dedicated to short notes from the fellows of the fellowship scheme of the DFID-Met Office Climate Science Research Partnership (CSRP) for Africa.

Download here the...

Featured Article: Explaining Climate Extremes

Abstract: Scientists don’t just have to understand climate change and extreme weather events – they have to communicate their knowledge in ways non-scientists can use. Catherine Beswick and Nico Caltabiano explain one approach to making climate science accessible.

Planet Earth is the quarterly magazine published by...

Innovative Application of ICTs in Addressing Water-related Impacts of Climate Change (ICTWCC) Project call for proposals open: The ICTWCC project is funded by the IDRC and managed by the University of Nairobi. The deadline for receiving proposals from applicants has been extended to the 30th of November 2012. Details about the project can be accessed on...

Climate Change Development and Adaptation (CCDA2) Conference - 19-20 October 2012, Addis Abeba, Ethiopia

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