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Changes in Australian attitudes towards global warming (21 May 2008) 

There was a dramatic increase in the media coverage of climate change in Australia during 2006 and 2007. This increase coincided with an increase in the level of concern about climate change amongst Australians. [More...]

Francis Zwiers, ETCCDI co-chair, awarded the 2007 Patterson Medal Award (05 Jun 2008) 

Dr. Francis Zwiers, Director of the Climate Research Division, Science and Technology Branch, Environment Canada, and co-chair of the CCl/CLIVAR/JCOMM Expert Team on Climate Change Detection and Indices (ETCCDI) has been awarded the 2007 Patterson Medal Award for distinguished service to meteorology in Canada. He received the award jointly with Dr. John (Jack) C. McConnell, Professor of Atmospheric Physics, Department of Earth and Space Science and Engineering, York University.

Latest WCRP News No. 10 (24 June 2008) 

The WCRP News No. 10 can be accessed through this link: http://wcrp.wmo.int/documents/Ezine10_Jun08.pdf

NASA launched a climate science portal (25 June 2008) 

NASA JPL has recently launched a new web portal on climate science. It can be accessed through the link http://climate.jpl.nasa.gov/

Latest WCRP News No. 10 (19 Sep 2008) 

The WCRP News No. 10 can be accessed through this link: http://wcrp.wmo.int/documents/WCRPezine11_Sep08.pdf

Year Of Tropical Convection Science Plan has been published (30 Oct 2008) 

The YOTC Science Plan has just been published as a WMO technical document. The focus of YOTC is organized tropical convection, with emphasis on time scales up to seasonal, and in particular the intersection of weather and climate. The YOTC project will address critical issues faced by prediction models that involve the representation of tropical convection, convective organization, the large-scale circulation and the accompanying scale interactions.

Report from the PAGES/CLIVAR Workshop: Reducing and representing uncertainties in high-resolution proxy climate data (02 Dec 2008) 

A report from the PAGES/CLIVAR Workshop: Reducing and representing uncertainties in high-resolution proxy climate data held in June 2008 in Trieste, Italy has been published (Cobb et al., 2008).

Latest WCRP News No. 12 (01 Dec 2008) 

The WCRP News No. 12 can be accessed through this link: http://wcrp.wmo.int/documents/Ezine12_Dec08.pdf

CORE community reference paper published (04 Dec 2008) 

A CORE (Co-ordinated Ocean-Ice Reference Experiments) community reference paper has been published: "Simulations are presented from seven global ocean-ice models using the CORE-I design (repeating annual cycle of atmospheric forcing for 500years): Griffies, S. M. et al., 2009: Coordinated Ocean-ice Reference Experiments (COREs). Ocean Modelling, 26, 1-46". [Download the paper]

OceanSITES call for whitepaper updates (22 Dec 2008) 

OceanSITES is calling PIs to help updating site information and whitepapers documents, which compile all OceanSITES activities. The documentation for all OceanSITES sites is available on http://www.oceansites.org/network/. Inputs should be provided by 9th January 2009.