The IndOOS Resource Forum (IRF) had its 11th meeting virtually on 19 August 2020. Roxy Mathew Koll, co-chair of IORP and Jing Li from ICPO participated the meeting on behalf of CLIVAR. 

The CLIVAR/IOC-GOOS Indian Ocean Region Panel (IORP) had its quarterly telecon on 18 June 2020.

Jose Santos and Jing Li, from the ICPO participated in the Tenth Annual Meeting of the Indian Ocean Observing System Resource Forum (IRF-10), which was held online in two parts: part one on Wednesday 25 March 2020, and part 2 on 30th April 2020.

A symposium themed as Climate Variation, Prediction and Application was held on November 17-19, 2019 at Nanjing, China to commemorate the 20-Year Anniversary of Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) Research. The summary report of the syposium is now available.

Due to the current global COVID-19 pandemic, the 16th Session of CLIVAR/IOC-GOOS Indian Ocean Region Panel Meeting (IORP-16), which was originally planned in Goa, India, was organised online on 24 March 2020.

CLIVAR/IOC-GOOS Indian Ocean Region Panel (IORP) members organized a Town Hall on IndOOS-2 at the AGU Ocean Sciences Meeting in San Diego on 20 February 2020.

The IndOOS-2:  Roadmap to Sustained Observations of the Indian Ocean for 2020-2030 is going to be launched during the 2019 AGU meeting in San Francisco at WCRP Exhibition Booth (#223) at 14:00 - 15:00 on Dec. 10 (Tuesday) and 10:00 - 11:00 on Dec. 12 (Thursday).