News

Jose Marengo, VAMOS co-chair, awarded IJC Editor's Award (22 Apr 2010) 

We are delighted to inform that Dr. Jose Marengo, co-chair of the CLIVAR VAMOS panel, has been awarded the 2009 International Journal of Climatology Editor's Award (sponsored by Wiley-Blackwell) of the Royal Meteorological Society.

CLIVAR Review article on global warming impacts on El Nino (27 May 2010) 

The CLIVAR Pacific Panel concludes, in a review article published in Nature Geosciences, that the changes in the Pacific region due to the rising of global temperatures will affect the character of ENSO and the impacts that ENSO has on the Pacific countries. However, it remains hard to identify whether ENSO variability will be enhanced or moderated, or how the frequency of the events will change. Read the article.

CHFP Sea-Ice Historical Forecast Project (02 Dec 2010) 

The CLIVAR Working Group on Seasonal to Interannual Predicability is coordinating the WCRP Climate-system Historical Forecast Project. This is a multi-model and multi-institutional experimental framework for sub-seasonal to decadal complete physical climate system prediction. The 'complete physical climate system' implies contributions from the atmosphere, oceans, land surface cryosphere and atmospheric composition in producing regional and sub-seasonal to decadal climate anomalies.

WGSIP calls for contributions to final phase of SMIP (29 March 2006) 

WGSIP is inviting for participation in the final phase of SMIP data collection and in the analysis of the SMIP datasets via diagnostic subprojects. For more information, please read the final call.