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The 'International Workshop for Mid-latitude Air-Sea Interaction: Advancing Predictive Understanding of Regional Climate Variability and Change across Timescales' will take place on June 8-9 (online) and June 12-14 (online + in-face), 2021. The in-face session is being organized in Sapporo, Japan.
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Monsoons have always been a focus of great interest to WCRP, and this was further enhanced with the efforts of its core projects CLIVAR and GEWEX under a joint Monsoons Panel. The importance of monsoon prediction for socio-economic applications was recognized quite early but understanding its variability across a wide range of time and...
The CLIVAR/CliC/SCAR Southern Ocean Region Panel (SORP) organized a two-session telecon on Dec. 8 and 10, 2020, discussing the task plan in 2021.
The co-chairs emphasized the importance of maintaining the connection with other communities. In addition to its three co-sponsors, SORP has established close connection with SOOS, YOPP-SH, ASPeCt and OOPC. Besides, the co-chairs hoped to...
The EGU General Assembly 2021 is going to be held virtually on 19-30 April. 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. Abstract submission deadline: 13 January 2021 at 13:00 CET. The list of sessions is not intended to be exhaustive but to help digest...
Time: 11:00 – 12:00 GMT+8, 15 December 2020
The first teleconference of the Regional Focal Points (RFP) Team for the sub-region of Eastern Asia, tasked with preparing the WCRP Regional Climate Forums (RCF) was organised on 15th December 2020, with the participation of representatives from WCRP Joint Steering Committee (JSC), GEWEX, SPARC and CLIVAR. Fangli...
We are deeply saddened and very sorry to hear that Dr Françoise Guichard, member of the CLIVAR/GEWEX Monsoons Panel, unexpectedly passed away on 5 December, 2020, in Concarneau, in her native France.
Françoise was a scientist at CNRM-GAME and joined the CLIVAR/GEWEX Monsoons Panel in 2015 and served as a panel co-chair from 2017 to 2019. As a leader in studies of the monsoon over West...
FIG. 1. (a) Annual mean, (b) January, and (c) September climatology of depth of 208C isotherm (D20; color) and ERA-Interim surface wind stress (arrows) for the 1993–2016 period. The boxed region in the west shows the Seychelles–Chagos thermocline ridge (SCTR) region (2°–15°S, 50°–80°E), the mean upwelling zone of the tropical Indian Ocean; the boxed area in the...
The 3rd CLIVAR community Teleconference was organised on 19th November 2020, with the participation of representatives from the CLIVAR Scientific Steering Group (SSG), Panels and Research Foci, and the WCRP Grand Challenge on Regional Sea Level Change and Coastal Impacts (SL GC). The main focus of this meeting was to update the progress of the CLIVAR internal assessment...
We are pleased to announce that Dr Lijing Cheng, member of the CLIVAR Global Synthesis and Observations Panel, has been awarded the WCRP/GCOS International Data Prize 2020!
The Selection Committee, consisting of representatives from WCRP, GCOS and their joint panels AOPC, TOPC and OOPC, was greatly impressed by the strong profile of Dr. Cheng and the high quality of his contribution to...
After finishing the Freshwater Review paper, the NORP panel organized its last telecon in 2020 on 23rd November. Most of the panel members, as well as four co-authors outside the panel attend this telecon.
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The ENSO Conceptual Model Working Group had its 3rd telecon on Nov. 19, 2020, with the participation of 16 WG members. In order to accelerate the speed for literature review, the group adopted a new format of telecons, which is to be organised every month for two hours each, containing two scientific talks for the thematical literature review, which...
The book: “Interacting Climates of Ocean Basins: Observations, Mechanisms, Predictability, and Impacts”, has been recently published by Cambridge University press; the editor is Carlos R. Mechoso. University of California, Los Angeles; and has the contribution from Noel Keenlyside and Ingo Richter, co-chairs of the Tropical Basin Interaction RF, as well as from other members of the TBI RF....
The El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) in the Pacific Ocean has major worldwide social and economic consequences through its global scale effects on atmospheric and oceanic circulation, marine and terrestrial ecosystems, and other natural systems. Ongoing climate change is projected to significantly alter ENSO’s dynamics and impacts.
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The CLIVAR Ocean Model Development panel organized a series of virtual meetings on 6th and 8th October, 2020. The panel reviewed the outcomes in the past few years, discussed the future science direction especially in the context of the new WCRP structure, and other business of the panel.
OMDP has been pushing forward the development of ocean circulation model through...
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