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Financial assistance deadline extended for 4th WCRP International Conference on Reanalyses 

4th WCRP International Conference on Reanalyses
7-11 May 2012, Silver Spring, Maryland USA

The 4th World Climate Research Programme International Conference on Reanalyses provides an exciting opportunity for the modeling community to review and discuss the major observations and modeling research associated with reanalyses.

SSG-19: CLIVAR Evolution and Collaboration 

The 19th Session of the CLIVAR Scientific Steering Group (SSG-19) was held in La Paz, Mexico, between 11th and 14th June 2012. Dr Jim Hurrell and Professor Martin Visbeck, SSG co-chairs, led the meeting of 30 participants, comprised of SSG members, chairs or representatives of CLIVAR panels and working groups, representatives of the other core WCRP projects, and other invitees.

The Future CLIVAR: Help chart the course (Town Hall) 

CLIVAR is the World Climate Research Programme project that addresses Climate Variability and Predictability, with a particular focus on the role of ocean-atmosphere interactions in climate. International CLIVAR seeks to identify major emerging climate science questions and to facilitate international coordination, cooperation and capacity building to address these issues.  CLIVAR of the future will be more cross-disciplinary and will need to build the application of CLIVAR/ocean science to societal needs.

Entries sought for GREEN SCREEN: Climate Fix Flicks film competition 

Climate scientists from Macquarie University, the University of Melbourne and Monash University have joined forces and come up with a unique way to raise awareness about climate change and the benefits of moving towards a low carbon future.

GDEWS Survey 

SECONDMENT OPPORTUNITY - Director of the International CLIVAR Project Office (ICPO) 

Role: Director of the International CLIVAR Project Office (ICPO)
Base: National Oceanography Centre - Southampton, UK
Start date: 1 August 2012 (negotiable)

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a secondment with the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) and the UK’s National Oceanography Centre (NOC) for the position of Director of the International CLIVAR Project Office (ICPO), located at NOC’s Southampton headquarters.  The secondment period will be until 31 March 2014.

It's crunching time: ICPO joins <i>climateprediction.net</i> 

We are putting our computers to work even harder here at the ICPO. We created a team called (guess what?) CLIVAR and all the staff joined it to help climateprediciton.net in the experiment to try and produce a forecast of the climate in the 21st century.

APCC invites proposals to conduct an international research project (30 March 2006) 

The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Climate Center (APCC) located in Busan, Republic of Korea, invites proposals to conduct an international research project on the development of a validated multi-model ensemble seasonal and sub-seasonal prediction system. The project budget is approximately US$150Kand the proposal due-date is 30 April 2006. The project announcement can be found on the APCC website

ESSP Open Science Conference: call for contributions (05 April 2006) 

The ESSP Open Science Conference, to be held in Beijing, China, on 9-12 November 2006 invites scientists, policy makers, practitioners, scholars, members of the private sector and journalists to submit online abstracts (poster or parallel session presentations) through the OSC website (www.essp.org/ESSP2006/CallPapers_index.html). Deadline is 01 May 2006.