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Jose Santos Executive Director of the International CLIVAR Project Office, attended the workshop: “Building an International Transparent Ocean Community”, which was held in Qingdao from 15 to 17 April 2019, organized by the Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology (QNLM)

The main objective of the workshop was  to facilitate an atmosphere of critical thinking,...

                                           17th Session of CLIVAR Atlantic Region Panel (Vienna, Austria)

The 17th Session of the CLIVAR Atlantic Region Panel (ARP17) took place in Vienna, Austria on April 13, 2019, following the 2019 EGU meeting. The panel reviewed the progress achieved since ARP16, specifically: on the Review of the...

The CLIVAR Pacific Regional Panel held the 2nd Tropical Pacific Decadal Variability (TPDV) Workshop at Sorbonne University in Paris, France from 1 to 5 April 2019, with the strong support of LOCEAN/IPSL. Eighteen scientists participated in the workshop, including six CLIVAR Pacific Regional Panel members, four former CLIVAR ENSO Research Focus members, two members of the CLIVAR Decadal Climate...

Applications are invited for groups within, or linked to CLIVAR communities across the globe to propose “Research Foci” (RF) Studies.

In response to the rapid pace of scientific advances and recognizing the need for the project to be flexible and responsive to new ideas and challenges, CLIVAR has developed the concept of Research Foci (RF), which are...

Workshop on Sources and Sinks of Ocean Mesoscale Eddy Energy (SSOMMEE) took place on 12 to 14 March, 2019 in Florida State University (FSU). The workshop was held in conjunction with the 5th session of CLIVAR Ocean Model Development Panel (OMDP)....

The 5th session of CLIVAR OMDP was successfully held on 11 & 14 March 2019 in Tallahassee, US. This panel meeting was held in conjunction with the Sources and Sinks of Ocean Mesoscale Eddy Energy (SSOMMEE) Workshop which was organized by the US CLIVAR....

The 15th Session of CLIVAR/IOC-GOOS Indian Ocean Region Panel took place in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, on 14-15 March 2019, in conjunction with other Indian Ocean Science meetings, including the 3rd Meeting of the second International Indian Ocean Expedition (IIOE-2) Steering Committee, the 9th...

Introduction

The Advanced School and Workshop will take place on August 19-24, 2019 at São Paulo, Brazil, it will bring together scientists and students for presenting and discussing the progress in research on the American monsoons and...

The organizers would like to invite you to contribute to a Special Collection titled “The Earth’s energy imbalance and its implications”, that will appear in the Journal of Climate and all other journals of the American Meteorological Society. Articles for the special collection should consider observations and/or modelling of all aspects of Earth’s energy imbalance and the resultant heating...

The 24th Session of the CLIVAR Scientific Steering Group was held at the Consortium for Ocean Leadership in Washington, DC., USA from 27th to 29th November 2018. The meeting was hosted by US CLIVAR and brought together the members of the Scientific Steering Group (SSG), the WCRP Joint Scientific Committee (JSC), the Executive Committee of the US CLIVAR Scientific Steering Committee (SSC...

Ocean circulation models have evolved a lot in the past ten years.Recently, members from the CLIVAR Ocean Model Development Panel (OMDP) and collaborators summarized the new developments in ocean modeling since a similar OMDP review from 2010. Their review summarized the challenges and prospects at the forefront of present work in ocean modeling. This article can be found in...

The UNESCO/IOC Regional Training and Research Center on Ocean Dynamics and Climate (ODC) will have its ninth training course on Climate Dynamics and Air-sea Interactions in Qingdao, China, 17-28 June 2019.

This Training Course is designed to develop the capacity of member states in the Western Pacific (suitable candidates from outside the region will also be welcome), who are involved...

Figure: A schematic illustration of pantropical feedbacks affecting ENSO. The black loop represents internal Pacific fast positive feedbacks (short arrows) and delayed negative feedbacks (long arrows). Interbasin feedbacks include Pacific feedbacks onto the Atlantic and Indian Oceans (blue arrows), delayed negative feedbacks of the Atlantic and Indian...

World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) recently announced that the WCRP Joint Scientific Committee (JSC) had elected Professor Detlef Stammer as its Chair and Dr Helen Cleugh as its Vice-chair for two years.

Detlef Stammer is a Professor at the Institute of Oceanography and the Director of the Center for Earth System Sciences and Sustainability (CEN), both at the University of Hamburg...

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