CLIVAR | Climate Variability and Predictability

What is CLIVAR?

CLIVAR is the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) project that addresses Climate Variability and Predictability, with a particular focus on the role of ocean-atmosphere interactions in climate. It works closely with its companion WCRP projects on issues such as the role of the land surface, snow and ice and the role of stratospheric processes in climate.

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Upcoming activities

CLIVAR VAMOS Workshop on Modeling and Predicting Climate in the Americas

Date: Mon, 04/06/2012 - Wed, 06/06/2012

Location: Petropolis, Brazil

19th Session of the CLIVAR Scientific Steering Group

Date: Mon, 11/06/2012 - Thu, 14/06/2012

Location: La Paz, Mexico

CLIVAR/WCRP Workshop on Decadal and Multi-decadal Variability in Pacific and Indian Ocean

Date: Tue, 04/09/2012 - Fri, 07/09/2012

Location: Qingdao, China

International workshop on interdecadal variability of the global monsoons

Date: Mon, 10/09/2012 - Wed, 12/09/2012

Location: Nanjing, China

WGOMD/SOP Workshop on Sea Level Rise, Ocean/Ice Shelf Interactions and Ice Sheets

Date: Mon, 18/02/2013 - Wed, 20/02/2013

Location: Hobart, Australia

SECONDMENT OPPORTUNITY - Director of the International CLIVAR Project Office (ICPO)

Role: Director of the International CLIVAR Project Office (ICPO)
Base: National Oceanography Centre - Southampton, UK
Start date: 1 August 2012 (negotiable)

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a secondment with the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) and the UK’s National Oceanography Centre (NOC) for the position of Director of the International CLIVAR Project Office (ICPO), located at NOC’s Southampton headquarters. The secondment period will be until 31 March 2014.

ICPO

Two New US CLIVAR Publications

Two publications - Assessing Meridional Overturning Circulation Variability and Understanding the Dynamic Response of Greenland's Marine Terminating Glaciers to Oceanic and Atmospheric Forcing - have been recently published by US CLIVAR.

Last month's WCRP Global Drought Information System Workshop

The World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) Drought Interest Group (DIG), together with CLIVAR, GEWEX, GEO, the European Space Agency (ESA), NASA, NSF, and NIDIS, sponsored a WCRP Global Drought Information System (GDIS) workshop in Frascati, Italy, in April 2012, focused on determining the needs and the steps necessary for the development of a GDIS.