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The 1st WCRP Secretariat & IPOs telecon in 2021 was organized on 21st January, with the participation of representatives from the IPOs of CLIVAR, CORDEX, SPARC, S2S, CORA, YESS and WCRP Secretariat. The major outcomes of the telecon are:

  • Welcome Helene Asbjørnsen (CliC Office), Hyung-Jin Kim (S2S IPO) and Anna Eronn (CORDEX IPO);
  • Decisions and...

The 2nd preparatory meeting of the ‘WCRP-CLIVAR Workshop on Climate Interactions among the Tropical Basins’ was organized on January 20th, 2021, with the participation of the CLIVAR TBI RF co-chairs, staff from the ICPO and the USCLIVAR Project Office, meeting planners from the Cooperative Programs for the Advancement of Earth System Science CPAESS-UCAR and multimedia...

The WCRP Regional Focal Point (RFP) Team for the sub-region of Eastern Asia organized its second telecon on January 19th, 2021, with the participation of representatives from the WCRP Joint Steering Committee (JSC), members of the RFP and staff from the ICPO.

The main purpose of this teleconference is to further discuss the preparation of the WCRP Climate Research Forum in...

The 1st preparatory meeting of the ‘WCRP-CLIVAR Workshop on Climate Interactions among the Tropical Basins’ was organized on January 13th, 2021 with 10 participants. The CLIVAR TBI RF co-chairs, staff from the ICPO and the USCLIVAR Project Office, and representatives from the Cooperative Programs for the Advancement of Earth System Science CPAESS-UCAR are joining forces to make sure...

The monthly meeting between the International CLIVAR Global Project Office (ICGPO) and the International CLIVAR Monsoon Project Office (ICMPO) was organized on January 10 (ECT)/ January 11 (IST&CST). The meeting was hosted by Jose Santos, Executive Director of ICPO. Rupa Kumar Kolli and Somnath Mahapatra from ICMPO and  Jing...

 

The 4th Telecon of the ENSO Conceptual Model Working Group (WG) coordinated under CLIVAR Pacific Region Panel was organised on Jan.6, 2020. 16 members of the WG participated the meeting.

The telecon was kicked off by Jerome Vialard, coordinator of the WG, by reviewing the progress...

The 'International Workshop for Mid-latitude Air-Sea Interaction: Advancing Predictive Understanding of Regional Climate Variability and Change across Timescales' will take place on June 8-9 (online) and June 12-14 (online + in-face), 2021. The in-face session is being organized in Sapporo, Japan.

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Monsoons have always been a focus of great interest to WCRP, and this was further enhanced with the efforts of its core projects CLIVAR and GEWEX under a joint Monsoons Panel. The importance of monsoon prediction for socio-economic applications was recognized quite early but understanding its variability across a wide range of time and...

The CLIVAR/CliC/SCAR Southern Ocean Region Panel (SORP) organized a two-session telecon on Dec. 8 and 10, 2020, discussing the task plan in 2021.  

The co-chairs emphasized the importance of maintaining the connection with other communities. In addition to its three co-sponsors, SORP has established close connection with SOOS, YOPP-SH, ASPeCt and OOPC. Besides, the co-chairs hoped to...

The EGU General Assembly 2021 is going to be held virtually on 19-30 April. In preparation for the meeting, we have compiled a list of sessions that are relevant to the community and convened by CLIVAR Panels, Research Foci and community members. Abstract submission deadline: 13 January 2021 at 13:00 CET. The list of sessions is not intended to be exhaustive but to help digest...

Time: 11:00 – 12:00 GMT+8, 15 December 2020

The first teleconference of the Regional Focal Points (RFP) Team for the sub-region of Eastern Asia, tasked with preparing the WCRP Regional Climate Forums (RCF) was organised on 15th December 2020, with the participation of representatives from WCRP Joint Steering Committee (JSC), GEWEX, SPARC and CLIVAR. Fangli...

We are deeply saddened and very sorry to hear that Dr Françoise Guichard, member of the CLIVAR/GEWEX Monsoons Panel, unexpectedly passed away on 5 December, 2020, in Concarneau, in her native France.

Françoise was a scientist at CNRM-GAME and joined the CLIVAR/GEWEX Monsoons Panel in 2015 and served as a panel co-chair from 2017 to 2019. As a leader in studies of the monsoon over West...

FIG. 1. (a) Annual mean, (b) January, and (c) September climatology of depth of 208C isotherm (D20; color) and ERA-Interim surface wind stress (arrows) for the 1993–2016 period. The boxed region in the west shows the Seychelles–Chagos thermocline ridge (SCTR) region (2°–15°S, 50°–80°E), the mean upwelling zone of the tropical Indian Ocean; the boxed area in the...

The 3rd CLIVAR community Teleconference was organised on 19th November 2020, with the participation of representatives from the CLIVAR Scientific Steering Group (SSG), Panels and Research Foci, and the WCRP Grand Challenge on Regional Sea Level Change and Coastal Impacts (SL GC). The main focus of this meeting was to update the progress of the CLIVAR internal assessment...

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