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The Global Climate Observing System (GCOS) supported by EUMETSAT will be holding a conference in Darmstadt, Germany on 29 November-2 December 2022 to assess how the current global climate observing system can be improved to better support current and near-term user needs for climate information. This conference follows on from the first climate observations...

The Thirteenth Annual Meeting of the Indian Ocean Observing System Resource Forum (IRF-13) was organized on 9th December 2021. Dr. Juliet Hermes and Dr. Roxy Mathew Koll, co-chairs of IORP, and Dr. Jose Santos and Jing Li from the ICPO participated in the meeting as IRF members from the CLIVAR side.

Brief updates on existing...

The December telecon of the CLIVAR/CliC/SCAR Southern Ocean Region Panel was organized on December 2nd, focusing on the review of the progress in task teams and next steps, the membership discussion and the annual report.

Torge reported the progress of the Southern Ocean heat and freshwater task team, which is designing a protocol for the freshwater-release...

The CLIVAR Climate Dynamic Panel held a telecon on November 17. All of the CDP members participanted in this online meeting, discussing the annual report, the membership renewal, and the panel plan for next year.

The members reviewed the panel actives and activities relevant to the CLIVAR and WCRP strategy plan in 2021.

All the self-nominees from the open call of CLIVAR panel...

A preparation teleconference for the 2022 Sea Level Conference was organized on 30th November 2021, with the participation of the WCRP Sea Level Grand Challenge (GC) co-chairs and members, local organizers and staff from WCRP Secretariat and ICPO. The main issues covered by the telecon were: COVID-19 regulations updates, poster session arrangement,...

The CLIVAR Atlantic Region Panel (ARP) organized a telecon on Nov. 24, mainly focusing on a virtual go-around to update ARP-relevant activities, a look at the annual report and a discussion of membership rotation.

The updates of ARP-relevant activities include mention of upcoming atmospheric field campaigns in the sub-Arctic,...

The CLIVAR Pacific Region Panel (PRP) held a telecon on 19 November 2021 mainly to discuss candidates for the PRP membership and the options for a possible PRP in-person meeting. Nine PRP members attended the...

The WCRP Secretariat and International Project Offices (IPOs) telecon was organized on 22nd November 2021, hosted by the CORDEX IPO, and with the participation of representatives from the WCRP Secretariat, CORA, and International Project Offices of CLIVAR, GEWEX, SPARC, and S2S.

Major updates of the meeting are:

  1. Main outcomes of the WCRP JSC-42b
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The Paleoclimate Modelling Intercomparison Project (PMIP) will celebrate its 30th Anniversary with an online conference on 2-3 December 2021. Established in 1991, the PMIP has provided an efficient mechanism for coordinating paleoclimate modelling activities. The key aims of the project are to understand the mechanisms of climate change, identify the different climatic factors that...

After being approved by the CLIVAR Tropical Basins Interaction Research Focus (TBI RF), the Working Group 4 (WG4) on Paleo Data organized its first teleconference online on 16 November, 2021. The meeting was convened by Yuko Okumura, co-chair of the TBI RF and lead of the WG4, with participation of Julien Emile-Geay, Jud Partin, Lea Svendsen and Jose Santos from ICPO.

The meeting...

The EGU General Assembly 2022 is going to be held in Vienna, Austria on 23-27 May, and the on-site registration is open until 14 April 2022. 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. The list of sessions is not intended to be...

A preparation teleconference for the 2022 Sea Level Conference was organized on 17th November 2021, with the participation of the WCRP Sea Level Grand Challenge (GC) co-chairs and members, local organizers and...

The World Climate Research Program (WCRP) Grand Challenge on “Regional Sea-Level Change and Coastal Impacts” will hold the Sea Level 2022 Conference in Singapore.

The conference will be held at Marina Bay Sands in Singapore between 12th and 16th July 2022....

Figure. The TIOON mooring array designed to examine the dynamic connection

As an important part of the Indo-Pacific warm poll, the Indian Ocean has great significance for research on the Asian Monsoon system and global climate change. In particular, since the twentieth century, the tropical eastern Indian Ocean...

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