Regional Activities

VAMOS Science Components

• NAME: North American Monsoon Experiment
• MESA: Monsoon Experiment South America
• VOCALS: VAMOS Ocean-Cloud-Atmosphere-Land Study
• LPB: The CLIVAR/GEWEX endorsed La Plata Basin Regional Hydroclimate Project
• IASCLIP: Intra-America Study of Climate Processes

VAMOS Field Campaigns

• EPIC-2001: Eastern Pacific Investigations of Climate.
• SALLJEX-2003: South American Low-Level Jet Experiment
• NAME-2004: North American Monsoon Experiment
• VOCALS REx: VOCALS Regional Experiment

Affiliated Projects

• PROSUR: PROgram for the study of regional climate variability, their prediction and impacts, in the mercoSUR area
• CLARIS: A Europe-South America Network for Climate Change Assessment and Impact Studies

VAMOS Related Programs

• US-CLIVAR: U.S. Climate Variability and Predictability
• PACS: Pan American Climate Studies
• IAS: Oceanography of the Intra-Americas Sea
• CPPA: Climate Prediction Project for the Americas
• YOTC: Year of Tropical Convection
• RICO: Rain in Cumulus over the Ocean
• CIIFEN: International Center for Research on "El Niño"
• PIRATA: Pilot Research Moored Array in the Tropical Atlantic
• KNMI: Climate Explorer
• LBA: Large Scale Biosphere- Atmosphere Experiment in Amazonia
• IAI: Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research
• GEWEX: Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment
• GAPP: GEWEX Americas Prediction Project
• GCIP: GEWEX Continental-Scale International Project
• GWSP: Global Water System Project