- About
- The Science
- CLIVAR Frontiers and Imperatives
- Frontier 1: Anthropogenic Climate Change
- Frontier 2: Decadal variability, predictability and prediction
- Frontier 3: Intra-seasonal and seasonal predictability and prediction
- Imperative 1: Improved atmosphere and ocean component models of Earth System Models
- Imperative 2: Data synthesis, analysis, reanalysis and uncertainty
- Imperative 3: Ocean observing system
- Imperative 4: Capacity building
- CLIVAR Endorsed Projects & Activities
- CLIVAR Objectives
- CLIVAR Successes
- CLIVAR Frontiers and Imperatives
- Panels and Working Groups
- Global
- PAGES/CLIVAR Intersection Working Group
- CCl/CLIVAR/JCOMM Expert Team on Climate Change Detection and Indices (ETCCDI)
- Global Synthesis and Observations Panel (GSOP)
- WGCM/CLIVAR Working Group on Ocean Model Development (WGOMD)
- Working Group on Seasonal to Interannual Prediction
- Working Group on Coupled Modelling (WGCM)
- Regional
- National Programmes
- Global
- Extremes Cross-Cut
- Calendar
- Resources
- Publications
CLIVAR Scientific Frontiers and Imperatives
Scientific Frontiers: Major scientific themes
Frontier 1: Anthropogenic climate change
Undertake the predictive science that aims to develop the adaptation decisions that must be made in response to human activity
Frontier 2: Decadal variability, predictability and prediction
Identify and understand phenomena that offer some degree of decadal predictability and to skilfully predict these climate fluctuations and trends
Frontier 3: Intra-seasonal and seasonal predictability and prediction
Identify and understand phenomena that offer some degree of intra-seasonal to inter-annual predictability, to skilfully predict these climate fluctuations and trends and to increase interactions between scientists, operational forecasters and decision makers
Imperatives: Enabling science to achieve the goals of the Scientific Frontiers
Imperative 1: Improved atmosphere and ocean component models of Earth System Models
Reduce the negative impact of biases in model representations of atmospheric and oceanic processes
Imperative 2: Data synthesis, analysis, reanalysis and uncertainty
Provide credibility to climate projections by understanding the past and present state of the ocean
Imperative 3: Ocean observing system
Maintain over many decades a sustained ocean observing system capable of detecting and documenting global climate change
Imperative 4: Capacity building
The CLIVAR Scientific Frontiers and Imperatives document can be downloaded in our Publications section.









