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EGU Session "Strong Ocean Currents: Honoring the science of Fritz Schott" (06 Jan 2009) 

EGU is holding a Session on "Strong Ocean Currents: Honoring the science of Fritz Schott" at their next General Assembly in Vienna, Austria, 19 ? 24 April 2009. The convenors of this session (Bill Johns, Jay McCreary and Martin Visbeck) encourage submissions on a science topic related to Fritz's contributions over the years. Abstracts are due on 13th January 2009. More information on http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2009/sessionprogramme/OS

Commemorative issue of Ocean Modelling (26 Feb 2009) 

Ocean Modelling is pleased to announce a special issue dedicated to the life and contributions of Peter Killworth. Until early 2008,Ocean Modelling was largely shaped, led and edited by Peter, its Founding Editor, who passed away on 28 January 2008. Papers are invited, including reviews, which focus on areas of research that are related to Peter?s interests and contributions to oceanography. While that can include all areas of ocean circulation, his recent interests covered

Tony Busalacchi has been elected AGU Fellow (26 Feb 2009) 

Congratulations to Tony Busalacchi, chair of the Joint Scientific Committee for WCRP, on his election to AGU Fellow. Tony Busalacchi is the Director of the Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center at the University of Maryland and a former co-chair of CLIVAR's Scientific Steering Group. For a full list of AGU's Elected Fellow, see: http://www.agu.org/about/honors/fellows/fellows2009.shtml

Phasing out the CLIVAR mirror site (06 Jun 2009) 

We are in the process of phasing out the CLIVAR mirror site at UCAR (clivar.ucar.edu). Please, update bookmarks or links you might have to that website which will be turned off on 01/Aug/2009.

Int. Journal of Clim. special issue on Africa Climate (16 Jun 2009) 

The Internatinal Journal of Climatology's latest special issue is focused on the African Climate and Applications. Papers can be seen at http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/122355158/issue

IASCLIP: the new endorsed CLIVAR project (28 Jul 2009) 

We are pleased to announce that CLIVAR SSG has endorsed the Intra-America Study of Climate Processes (IASCLIP), as proposed by the VAMOS panel. More information can be found at http://www.eol.ucar.edu/projects/iasclip/

CMIP3 team at PCMDI receives AMS Special Award (04 Nov 2009) 

The American Meteorological Society has made a Special Award to the CMIP3 team at PCMDI for their outstanding efforts in archiving and making available the CMIP3 multi-model dataset. The award will be presented at the AMS Annual Meeting in Atlanta, Georgia in January,2010. We all owe a great debt of gratitude to PCMDI for their support of WGCM model intercomparison initiatives over the years, culminating in the CMIP3 effort. We look forward to their continued contributions for CMIP5.

GO-SHIP launches new website (27 Nov 2009) 

The Global Ocean Ship-based Hydrographic Investigations Program (GO-SHIP) was established in 2007 by the IOCCP and CLIVAR to develop a strategy for a sustained global repeat hydrography program as a contribution to the OceanObs09 Conference (September 2009) and to revise the 1994 WOCE hydrographic program manual.

NOAA launches new Climate Services (15 Feb 2010) 

NOAA has started a new climate service on Monday that will provide predictions on how global warming will affect everything from drought to sea level rise. More info on the new service can be found at http://www.climate.gov/.

CLIVAR-Spain report on climate variability and change in the Iberian Peninsula (21 Apr 2010) 

The report summarizes and evaluates information on the past and recent climate variability and change observed in the Iberian Peninsula, as well as on the regional climate projections for the end of the century. As the main outcome of the workshop held in Madrid in February 2009, the report was officially presented in Madrid on 12 April 2010 by the Spanish Secretary of State for Climate Change. The report, available in Spanish, will be soon translated in English.