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Future Earth science committee announced

The International Council for Science (ICSU) and the International Social Science Council (ISSC), announced the members of the first Science Committee for Future Earth, a new 10-year research programme on global sustainability.

Highlights from SSG-20

The CLIVAR Scientific Steering Group meets on an annual basis, to discuss the accomplishments of the last year and future direction of the project. The meeting is the one opportunity in the CLIVAR calendar where the entire SSG meet in once location. The outcomes of the meeting present new and exciting opportunities for the future of CLIVAR.

Africa Climate Conference

The Africa Climate Conference 2013, organized under the auspices of the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) and the African Climate Policy Center (ACPC), hosted by the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, will bring together decision-makers and climate researchers, scientists and applications specialists from Africa and around the world.

Africa Climate Research Network

The CLIVAR-GEWEX Africa Climate Panel has launched a database that aims to strengthen the network of climate scientists in Africa.

Early Career Scientist Network

CLIVAR launches new Early Career Scientist Network

Exchanges - Download your copy today

The latest edition of Exchanges is available to download.

Upcoming activities

13th Session of the Asian-Australian Monsoon Panel (AAMP13)

Date: Sat, 26/10/2013 - Sun, 27/10/2013

Location: Macao, China

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Exchanges 62 now available!

CLIVAR Exchanges Special Issue on Sea Level Rise, Ocean/Ice Interactions and Ice Sheets

August 2013, No. 62 (Vol 18, No 2)

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CLIVAR Exchanges Edition number 1 Published!

In the ICPO we have been searching for a while to locate a copy of the very first edition of the CLIVAR Exchanges publication. After much searching in our cupboards we have finally found a copy! Our records are up to date! So if you are interested in reading about the science that CLIVAR was involved with in February 1996 - check it out!

Read Exchanges 1 now.

Fall AGU Session on the Southern Ocean

Are you attending the Fall AGU meetin in San Fransisco? You could attend a session A065: The Southern Ocean: Clouds, Aerosols and the Air-Sea Interface

Convenors: C. Bretherton (U. Washington), C. Jakob (Monash U.), P. Quinn (NOAA/PMEL), R. Weller (WHOI)

This session brings together observational and modeling research on clouds, aerosols and air-sea interaction over the sparsely observed Southern Ocean. Here, climate models underestimate low cloud, confront uncertainties in cloud-nucleating aerosol concentrations and ice/mixed phase processes, and often overpredict wind stress, affecting cloud feedbacks and precipitation globally. Solicited topics include cloud characteristics (vertical distribution, phase, precipitation, radiative interaction), aerosol transport/sources/sinks, aerosol-cloud-precipitation interactions, air-sea coupling (including interannual and longer variability), their relevance to climate model biases or climate change, and key knowledge gaps/opportunities.

US CLIVAR Variations Newseltter out now

The summer 2013 edition of the US CLIVAR Variations newseltter is now available to read online. This edition focuses on the theme of ENSO Diversity. Click here to access your copy now!