Scientific Steering Group

The CLIVAR Scientific Steering Group (SSG) meets on an annual basis, to discuss the accomplishments of the last year and future direction of the project for the forthcoming year. The meeting is the one opportunity in the CLIVAR calendar where the entire SSG and representatives from panels, working groups, national programmes, funders and other WCRP (World Climate Research Programme) core projects (CLiC, SPARC and GEWEX) all meet in once location. The 4-day meeting was hosted by GEOMAR in Kiel, Germany, the home institute of CLIVAR SSG co-chair Martin Visbeck. In total 48 people participated over the four days of the meeting, with representatives from over 30 international academic institutions/scientific organizations.