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In-person event at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics

22-31 July 2024, Kastler Lecture Hall, ICTP, Trieste, Italy

In person meeting at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics

CLIVAR is a Core Project of the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) dedicated to understanding the role of the ocean in the variability, predictability and change of climate and to the benefit of society and the environment in which we live. The International CLIVAR Project Office (ICPO) serves as the executive arm of the CLIVAR Scientific Steering Group and its panel and working groups. The ICPO is based at the Ocean University of China (OUC), Qingdao, China. The OUC and WCRP invite applications for the position of ICPO Staff Scientist.

 

 

CLIVAR is a Core Project of the World Climate Research Programme dedicated to understanding the role of the ocean in the variability, predictability and change of climate, to the benefit of society and the environment in which we live.  The International CLIVAR Project Office (ICPO) serves as the executive arm of the CLIVAR Scientific Steering Group and its panel and working groups. The ICPO is based at the Ocean University of China (OUC), Qingdao, China.  The OUC and WCRP invite applications for the position of ICPO Senior Staff Scientist.

The 15th Session of CLIVAR/CliC/SCAR Southern Ocean Region Panel (SORP-15) and 3rd Session of CLIVAR/CliC Northern Ocean Region Panel (NORP-3) were successfully organized in Potsdam (July 10) and Berlin (July 11), Germany, alongside the 2023 IUGG General Assembly. 

The call for nominations to the CLIVAR panels and Scientific Steering Group (SSG) is now open, with appointment starting in January 2024 and January 2025 respectively. Deadline for the submission is 14 October 2023.

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This second-generation CLIVAR Science Plan builds on the important legacy of CLIVAR emerging since its inception in 1992 and redirects the CLIVAR goals and priorities for the coming decade after consultation with scientists and stakeholders throughout the climate community.

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The Tropical Pacific Decadal Variability (TPDV) Working Group of the CLIVAR Pacific Region Panel recently published a review paper that evaluates our understanding of the mechanisms behind TPDV.  No final consensus exists on the relative importance and efficacy of the mechanisms, but the tropical ocean adjustment to varying wind forcing likely plays a key role in the origin of decadal timescales.  These processes are elucidated in this review paper which is a product of rigorous discussions at several virtual meetings over the span of two years since the working group’s establishment in May 2021. 

Researchers from the Ocean and Atmosphere Studies Laboratory (LOA), National Institute for Space Research (INPE) and collaborators, published  the article “Oceanic SACZ produces an abnormally wet 2021/2022 rainy season in South America”, in Scientific Reports.

Marine heatwaves (MHWs) are events characterized by prolonged and extremely warm ocean conditions, and have been detected in recent decades over many regions of the global ocean. Some recent studies led by D. Mawren and with the contribution from J. Hermes (co-chair of IORP), provide an improved understanding of the important role of horizontal advection, associated with anticyclonic eddies on the evolution of MHWs, as well as the co-occurring extremes in the Mozambique Channel.