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.
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.
The Ocean Sciences section of the American Geophysical Union is seeking nominations for the following awards and lectures:
- Ocean Sciences Award
- Early Career Award
- Rachel Carson Lecture
- Sverdrup Lecture
Deadline for nominations: 1st June 2013
The Year of Tropical Convection (YOTC) website has been redesigned and is now called yotc.ucar.edu
It contains some new parts for example the YOTC related projects which will hopefully be of use to the community. The old website address (www.ucar.edu/yotc) will automatically redirect you to the new site.
The 41st SCOR Executive Committee Meeting will take place in Wellington, New Zealand on 25-27 November 2013. The SCOR Secretariat will accept proposals for new working groups from now until 15 May 2013.
Coordinated Ocean-ice Reference Experiments (COREs) were proposed by the WCRP/CLIVAR Working Group on Ocean Model Development (WGOMD) as a venue for comparing global ocean-sea ice models run under a common prescribed atmospheric state, with boundary fluxes computed via the same bulk formulae. CORE simulations complement the coupled climate and earth system models run for the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP). Efforts across a broad community of modelling groups have produced CORE simulations (CORE-II) using 60 years (1948–2007) of inter-annual forcing, with details of the protocol and participating groups available from the WGOMD web site: http://www.clivar.org/wgomd/core/core-2