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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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Two New US CLIVAR Publications

Two publications have been recently published by US CLIVAR: 1) Assessing Meridional Overturning Circulation Variability; and 2) Understanding the Dynamic Response of Greenland's Marine Terminating Glaciers to Oceanic and Atmospheric Forcing.

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.

Exchanges 58 Now Online

The 58th edition of the CLIVAR Exchanges newsletter - a thematic issue on CLIVAR's ocean basin panels - is now online in our Publications section.

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CLIVAR Town Hall Meeting at the 2012 Ocean Sciences Meeting, 21 February, Salt Lake City USA

Martin Visbeck, CLIVAR SSG co-chair, kicked off the evening event with a brief overview of CLIVAR objectives and organisation. He emphasised that international CLIVAR focused on problems that require international coordination or cooperation and outlined how CLIVAR fits into the bigger scheme of WCRP and the other international Global Change programmes.