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Tropical Pacific Decadal Variability plays an important role in the global climate as evident from its influence on the recent slowdown of the globally-averaged surface temperature trend as well as its impacts on fisheries, onset of Spring over the western US, and other quantities relevant for society. A CLIVAR Tropical Pacific...

US CLIVAR organized the 'Tropical Pacific Observing Needs to Advance Process Understanding and Representation in Models Workshop' from May 24 to 26, 2021. The meeting was 100% virtual. Over 200 participants from more than 30 countries registered for the event. Five members from CLIVAR Pacific Region Panel (...

Building on the success of the Sea Level 2017 Meeting in New York, the World Climate Research Program (WCRP) Grand Challenge on “Regional Sea-Level Change and Coastal Impacts” will hold the Sea Level 2022 meeting on 11-15 July, 2022 in Singapore. This is three years after the IPCC Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate (SROCC) report and one year after the publication...

The CLIVAR Ocean Model Development Panel (OMDP) successfully organized a virtual meeting on 18th May 2021, the so-called OMDP-5.5 since it happened in between the fifth and sixth OMDP in-person panel meeting. All the official panel members and the emeritus/emerita members participated in this meeting.

The objective of this meeting is to review the progress of the ongoing OMDP activities...

The World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) local organizing committee for the Southeast Asia region warmly invites you to the upcoming WCRP Climate Research Forum on "Climate research priorities for the next decade", which will be online on 25 May 2021 at 14:00 – 16:00 Indochina Time (UTC+7), 15:00 – 17:00 Malaysia, Philippines, and Singapore Standard Time (UTC+8).

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The WCRP “Regional Sea Level Change and Coastal Impacts” Grand Challenge is organizing the Sea Level 2022 Conference to be held in Singapore, 11-15 July 2022. In order to continue its planning, some members from the Local Organizing Committee: Robert.Nicholls, Wal, R.S.W. van de (Roderik), Aurel MOISE, Svetlana Jevrejeva, Benjamin P. Horton, Kathy Mcinnes, David Behar and Jose Santos held a...

On May 5th GSOP organized a teleconference to plan its activities for the year. The meeting was chaired by Peter Oke and Steven Jayne, and had the participation of several GSOP members; and there were special presentations from Narelle van der Wel (briefing on the WCRP LHAs), Yosuke Fujii (presentation on OceanPredict OSEval Task Team), Susann Tegtmeier (briefing on the WCRP Core...

The 33rd Session of the GEWEX Scientific Steering Group (SSG) was held online from 3-6 May 2021.

The Global Energy and Water Exchanges (...

The WCRP Secretariat and International Project Offices (IPOs) telecon was organized on 6th May 2021, with the participation of representatives from the IPOs of CliC, CLIVAR, SPARC, CORDEX, S2S, CORA, Monsoon, YESS and WCRP Secretariat. The major uptakes from the telecon are:

  • Staff changes in WCRP Secretariat and IPOs: Nico Caltabiano and Narelle van der Wel will join...

As invited by the organisers of the 2021 “AI Earth” Artificial Intelligence Innovation Challenge -- AI Helps Accurate Weather and Ocean Forecast”, Jose Santos, Executive Director of ICPO sent his remark to the final and the closing ceremony of the competition, which was organised on the 52nd World Earth Day (22 April 2021). The event brought together government...

The second telecon in 2021 of CLIVAR/CliC/SCAR Southern Ocean Region Panel (SORP) was held at 8th April. Main output of the telecon are as follows.

  • SORP will continue to have its regular meeting in the following months of this year to keep in touch.
  • Information and ideas of the on-planning major SORP meetings in 2021 were exchanged, including the SORP-14, NORP-...

The first telecom of the CLIVAR Climate Dynamics Panel in 2021 was held in April 8th, with the refresh of the members. Four new members, Yoshi Sasaki, Michael Byrne, Juliette Mignot, and Jennifer Kay joined the panel.

The telecon began with the introduction of CDP by the co-chair, including the term of reference, aim, and future plan, followed by the self-introduction of each...

UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) has released the report Integrated Ocean Carbon Research: A Summary of Ocean Carbon Research, and Vision of Coordinated Ocean Carbon Research and Observations for the Next Decade on April 23rd, 2021. It is accessible at the UNESCO Digital Library and...

 

The 17th Session of CLIVAR/IOC-GOOS Indian Ocean Region Panel (IORP-17) held virtually on 28 April 2021. 28 people participated in the meeting, including IORP members and representatives from IORP partners and Early Career Scientists (ECS) communities in the Indian Ocean.

The...

The leadership and joint members of the CLIVAR/IOC-GOOS Indian Ocean Region Panel (IORP) and the Sustained Indian Ocean Biogeochemistry and Ecosystem Research (SIBER) of IMBeR held a telecon on 23 April 2021, to discuss how to strengthen the cooperation between the groups. The SIBER chair (Greg Cowie) and co-chair (Raleigh Hood), IORP co-chairs (Roxy Mathew Koll...

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