The CLIVAR Atlantic Regional Panel (ARP) seeks nominations for four new members (self nominations are welcome). The panel is in particular need of nominees possessing expertise in sea level, tropical Atlantic dynamics, and extreme events and their association with climate change.

The 23rd PIRATA meeting and the 2nd TAOS REVIEW meeting will be organized in Marseille, France from October 22 to 26, 2018. Deadline for abstract submission is: 8 September, 2018; Deadline for registration is: 6 October, 2018.

A new article entitled ‘Exploring the Interplay Between Ocean Eddies and the Atmosphere’, written by Walter Robinson, Sabrina Speich and Eric Chassignet, has recently been published on Eos (https://doi.org/10.1029/2018EO100609), summarising the workshop on ‘Ocean Mesoscale Eddy Interactions with the Atmosphere’.

Two international initiatives for the Tropical Ocean-Atmosphere Interactions at the Ocean Mesoscale have been endorsed by CLIVAR SSG recently: ATOMIC/EUREC4A-OA.

The 2018 US AMOC Science Team Report on Progress and Priorities is now online.