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Call for papers for the Special Collection at AMS: The atypical 2014-2024 ENSO decade
We would like to draw your attention to submit papers to the Special Collection of the American Meteorological Society organised by CLIVAR members, which explores the unusual variability and evolution of the El Niño - Southern Oscillation (ENSO...

Weather & Climate Interactions – observations, theory, and modelling

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The year 2025 marks the 50th anniversary of two milestone events of early El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) research that involved Klaus Wyrtki of the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, a pioneering oceanographer who made groundbreaking contributions to our understanding of ENSO: The publication of his seminal Journal of Physical Oceanography 1975 paper: “El Niño—The dynamic...

CLIVAR SSG member, Dr Roxy Mathew Koll of IITM Pune has been awarded the most prestigious award in India: the Rashtriya Vigyan Pusarkar: Vigyan Yuva Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award 2024 in Earth Science, for his outstanding contribution in the study of Indian Ocean warming and its implication on Indian Monsoon and marine productivity.  His work provides insight to build better networks and...

The call for nominations to the CLIVAR panels and Scientific Steering Group (SSG) is now open, with appointment starting in January 2025 and January 2026 respectively. Nominations can be submitted online via the nomination form, deadline for the submission is 18 October 2024. Detailed...

Dr Howard Cattle

We are saddened to hear of the passing away of Dr Howard Cattle, Director of the International CLIVAR Project Office (ICPO) from 2002 to 2010 while it was at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, UK. 

Howard succeeded John Gould in August 2002, as the fourth director of the ICPO, around the time when the World Ocean...

CLIVAR (www.clivar.org) is a Core Project of the World Climate Research Programme (http://www.wcrp-climate.org) dedicated to understanding the role of the ocean in the variability, predictability and change of climate and to the benefit of society and the environment in which we live. Each of the Core Projects has...

At the start of 2024, the CLIVAR Scientific Steering Group (SSG) bid farewell to member Dr Wenju Cai, and welcome a new member Dr Shoshiro Minobe.

Dr Wenju Cai served as a member of the SSG in 2018 and 2023, and as Co-Chair from 2019 to 2022.  Prior to joining the SSG, Dr Cai served as member and Co-Chair of the CLIVAR Pacific Region Panel.  

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In-person event at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics

22-31 July 2024, Kastler Lecture Hall, ICTP, Trieste, Italy

Polar climates are key components of the global climate and have been undergoing rapid and dramatic changes over the past decades.

This activity will emphasize the interactions between the cryosphere, ocean and atmosphere...

In person meeting at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics

29-31 July 2024, Kastler Lecture Hall, ICTP, Trieste, Italy

The sea ice plays a key role in the climate system, through its impact on radiative fluxes and the modulation of freshwater, energy and gas transfers between the...

CLIVAR (www.clivar.org) is a Core Project of the World Climate Research Programme (http://www.wcrp-climate.org) dedicated to understanding the role of the ocean in the variability, predictability and change of climate and to the benefit of society and the environment in which we live. Each of the Core Projects has...

Figure 1: The "v_prime T_bar" mechanism, schematically illustrated with mean (black arrows) and anomalous (red arrows) flows, which reveal how flow along constant-density surfaces connects the subtropics to the tropics.  Both "v_prime T_bar" and "v_bar T_prime" mechanisms have been proposed as potential contributors to tropical Pacific decadal variability ('prime'...

CLIVAR (www.clivar.org) is a Core Project of the World Climate Research Programme (http://www.wcrp-climate.org) dedicated to understanding the role of the...

The 18th Session of CLIVAR Atlantic Region Panel was successfully organized at Universität Hamburg, Germany and online on 17 July 2023, alongside the workshop on ‘Meeting AMOC Observation Needs in a Changing Climate’ which was organized on 18-20 July. During the ARP-18, a comprehensive review of the ARP activities was conducted, with the focus on three foci (AMOC, ocean climate risk...

The 15th Session of CLIVAR/CliC/SCAR Southern Ocean Region Panel (SORP-15) and 3rd Session of CLIVAR/CliC Northern Ocean Region Panel (NORP-3) were successfully organized in Potsdam (July...

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