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A teleconference with the participation of members of the Organizing Committee and the Scientific Organizing Committee of the SPARC General Assembly was held on 21st July at 1 pm UTC. Fangli Qiao and Yajuan Song from the First Institute of Oceanography (host of the Asia hub), and Jose Santos and Qian Zhao from the ICPO participated in the meeting.

Stefanie Kremser (SPARC IPO...

The call for nominations to the CLIVAR panels and Scientific Steering Group (SSG) is now open, with appointment starting in January 2023 and January 2024 respectively. Nominations can be submitted online via the nomination form, deadline for the submission is 14 October 2022. Detailed information...

CLIVAR participated in the 43rd Meeting of the WCRP’s Joint Steering Committee (JSC-43), organized virtually from 27 - 30 June 2022. The meeting aimed to assess the progress made by the core projects and lighthouse activities (LHA) towards WCRP's goals and the ambitions and plans for the future of...

A Frontier in Marine Sciences special issue on "Climate Services for Adaptation to Sea-Level rise" is now available online. This Research Topic contributes to better understanding of the status of climate services for coastal adaptation. It builds upon a workshop...

On June 22-23, 2022, the 2022 East Asia Marine Cooperation Platform (EAMCP) Qingdao Forum with the theme “Embrace the Ocean Decade for a Shared Future” was held at the Qingdao World Expo City. The Forum consisted of 10 major events, including the Opening Ceremony & Main Forum, Seven Sub-Forums, Global Marine Tech Innovation and Entrepreneurship Contest (Final) and East Asia Marine Expo....

The Regional Training Workshop on Observing the Coastal and Marginal Seas in the Western Indian Ocean (WIO) was successfully organized from 7 to 9 June 2022, in a hybrid format, with 25 in-person participants in Maputo, Mozambique and over...

The CLIVAR Pacific Region Panel (PRP) held a telecon on 2 June 2022, mainly for sharing updates on various activities by PRP members, discussing the SSG feedback to the PRP annual report and the possible options for the next PRP in-person meeting. Ten PRP members and Jing Li from ICPO attended the telecon.

Dr. Cristian Martinez-...

The 27th Session of the CLIVAR Scientific Steering Group (SSG) took place on April 1, 4 & 5, 2022, bringing together over 40 scientists from all over the world, including the CLIVAR SSG members, co-chairs of CLIVAR panels, Research Foci (RF) and WCRP Sea Level Grand Challenge (GC), as well as the invited representatives from the UN Ocean Decade, US CLIVAR, WCRP Secretariat, and from...

Figure: Regressions of the JJAS (a,d), SOND (b,e) and NDJF (c,f) SST (C) onto the JJAS Atl3 index for the control (CTL; a,b,c) and the perturbed (AtlSim; d,e,f) simulations. Gray (black) contours show significant correlations at the 95% (90%) level.

Tropical basin interactions (TBI) are receiving increasing attention, as illustrated by the establishment of the...

A workshop titled 'From Global to Local: Cultivating New Solutions and Partnerships for an Enhanced Ocean Observing System in a Decade of Accelerating Change' is being organised by the CLIVAR community in close cooperation with GOOS and with the support of ICTP, WCRP and US CLIVAR. The workshop is rescheduled for 15-17 August 2022 at ICTP, Trieste...

This international workshop is hosted by Euro-Argo and will take place at the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences in Brussels on 11-13 October 2022, as a hybrid event with in-person and virtual attendance options.

The workshop aims to bring together ocean science research that has employed Argo data and products to further improve our knowledge of the changing...

Climate observations are of fundamental importance for reconstructing, monitoring, understanding, attributing, predicting, projecting, mitigating, and adapting to climate change. They are instrumental for assessments and policy implementations, such as the IPCC and the 2015 Paris Agreement. The need for systematic climate observations is increasing with the growing urgency for adaptation...

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